The boy and his cellphone
The response was oblivious
The butterfly was beautiful
The boy in his teens was
looking down at his device
not conscious of the natural
beauty of the butterfly
too busy to even notice
just with the curvature
of his spine like a
crescent moon
always bent over
looking down at
the cellphone
texting his next
message or
maybe playing
a game or two
never in the real
world of living
in California
where you could
be missing life
and still have
your head down
diving into the
keys and using the phone
to make your connection
when really it is not the
social network you are
witnessing
but the natural world
you are missing
Picture was a newyorker mag I saw at the Dr. office
by Carter Goodrich, who had the cover of a cartoon
pic with a teenager hunched over looking at his ph.
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