Connecting

I left my phone at my house.
12 hourse without instant communication
Sara called me 7 times.
She was positive I was dead.

I left my computer at school
One night without facebook
Boyfriend wrote me a poem
I am worried since I took so long to respond, does he think I didn't like it?

I am not teaching anymore.
I gave my students my email address
Most of them told me
Unless I get a myspace and a texting plan it will be too hard to stay in touch

My sister does not have the internet
Nor long distance, TVs, media subscriptions
I can call her
But only between the milkings and garden work, the afternoon nap and a trip to the sand box

My blog is sort of anonymous
I try to remember not to use names...
But sara told me that she googled her name
and one of the rants on here was the first thing that came up!

Since I have been sitting here
Staring at my computer
With three others staring at their computers
I have missed five phone calls

Why do we avoid each other's presence?
We are too busy texting, calling, typing, reading
Buying, upgrading, uploading, downloading
searching, blogging, twittering, dialing