National Poetry Month Challenge - Day 17 / SHAZAM!

The writing prompt for today was to write a pop culture poem.  Abracadabra ... I'm back in the 80's with just a touch on my iPhone.

SHAZAM!

Shazam tells me I would like

Mumford and Sons,

So I ask Siri to bring up iTunes.

Greasy spoon?

Yes, the nearest greasy spoon

is on Main Street.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

When too lazy to put on my own music,

or find out which album has virtually

“Dropped,”

Sirius XM New Wave

brings back,

Every Day is Like Sunday,

or the refrain,

It’s the End of the World as We Know it.

I’m left with the bubble

of thinking that I’m still in the late 80’s –

a virtual music world –

when we still had vinyl,

and you could rewind a cassette tape

with the turn of a pencil.

Shazam!

Cristina M. R. Norcross

Copyright 2014