Lonesome?
Bored?
Need to mingle,
Be around people,
hear voices, get out and around?
Why not, maybe...do it...
with the "PHONE TALKERS?"
(WWII had its "Code Talkers..."
The New Millennium has its
"Phone Talkers.")
"Ah, good idea... do they
hang out? Where would I go?"
They're everywhere, walkin' all
over the place...crossin' streets
and talkin'...
You can spot 'em...look in their faces...
for "the thousand-yard-stare..."
Look for eyes...unseeing...
Show me a Walker...and I'll show you
a Talker!
Show me a bench anywhere, and I'll
show you Talkers, sliding
off the ends!
Show me a Walgreen's, Whole Foods,
Walmart, Quiznos...the big
stores...and I'll show
you Talkers--- hangin' out...in front!
Everyone, it seems has a smart phone.
Even those "starving" and
asking for hand-outs...
you'll encounter them.
Everyone has business, all over...
big business, important business,
urgent business, like was never
heard of since creation...
Now if you're a "new mingler" and "Talker"
just out of the house...read "closet..."
---learn by watching these
24/7 Talkers...
They sit down, they get up, they traipse
up and down, always staring off
into distant space somewhere...
Yes, they parade all around in front of you,
their egos soaking it all in with
every step...gesturing, shrugging,
looking surprised, looking annoyed, mouth
gaping at times...they do a 180
and go back and forth like a
scene from a movie...
Many's the times and likely the hours
I've spent watching those Talkers
fret and strut but I reckon,
I've never yet seen any Talker SMILE...
Maybe their portfolios all went south!
Is it "sound and fury signifying nothing?"
Ah, but not to worry---you will no longer
be lonely and bored amidst
these Unfathomable Talkers
if you're an observer of
"THE HUMAN SITUATION."
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from "Running Blind" by Lee Child:
"Everybody uses mobiles all the rime,
just constantly. It's a phenomenon of the
modern age.
Everybody's talk, talk, talking all the time---
little black phones pressed up to their faces.
Where does all that conversation come
from? What happened to all that conversation
before mobiles were invented?
Was it all bottled up? Burning ulcers in people's
guts? Or did it just develop spontaneously
because technology made it possible?
Is it a useful exchange of information or are
the vast majority of calls---
(1) The sheer fun and delight of doing something
just because you can, or else---
(2) The ego-building self-importance BS aspect?"
.
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BY MIL
5/11/16
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