To come home to no pay phones anywhere,

when they use to be everywhere, on every corner

hungry for our quarters nickels and dimes.

To YouTube and Netflix over a cable box

What’d the world do with all those big plastic tan boxes with all their buttons.

From a time when kids rhode bikes in droves-

to barren neighborhoods where all the kids are

Hidden in their homes hypnotized by video games or

YouTube videos

No more talking on your rotary landline your pacing limited

By the length of your cord. Those times seem stolen from the Earth to me.

As if they were sucked up by an alien aircraft- just gone! I swear they existed last time I was here-

You all witnessed it in tiny and announced doses

saw it as it all began or ceased to exist

While me? I was blindfolded and unaware of all the movement

That had transpired to and from-

Then as if dropped into outer space

I arrived at my destination –

The real world

Nothing like I remembered

Nothing like I had hoped

But oddly enough I Love it here…