He was so upset after pulling in the driveway
Came home from class that day
Mad as a Russian Bear, slammed his book bag
Down of the floor, yanked the refrigerator door,
Grabbed a beer, sat and the couch, and screamed.
"What's the matter...?"
"Leave me alone for a while I am a little..."
After two beers he was like water and decided to talk,
Professor marked up his paper because he
Used Wikipedia for two citations instead
Of a legitimate encyclopedia;
"You should not use Wikipedia
The professor said rubbing his bald head,
I can't figure out where his head it located!"
Later he was on the phone talking back and forth
With some classmates,
Some of them have decided to file
A joint complaint with the provost office;
"The professor is wrong, he is old fashioned!
We must stop this abuse!" They agreed.
Four of them came with laptops, took over the kitchen,
And dining room table; their finger started
Buzzing on the keyboards like flying bees in a hive,
"They are old fashioned, in fear of letting go of
Their old ways, they are trying to hold on to nothing."
The chattering continued:
"When telegraph died
They blamed the newspapers,
When the newspapers died they blamed
The Internet, now they want to blame
Wiki for the death of the en-psycho-clops,
This is like science versus religion,
It's not the end of the news,
What if we had cited the source from television CBS news?"
They wanted my opinion,
I did not know what to say; see, back in my day
We had a shoe box with 3 by 5 cards
In the library, we also had typewriters with rounds keys
We had to retype a paper several times
And the spellings were still wrong.
It's not like what they do now with these laptop computers
So I had no idea what they were talking about.
But guess what? "No one told us that we
Had to stay in the shoe box!"
Came home from class that day
Mad as a Russian Bear, slammed his book bag
Down of the floor, yanked the refrigerator door,
Grabbed a beer, sat and the couch, and screamed.
"What's the matter...?"
"Leave me alone for a while I am a little..."
After two beers he was like water and decided to talk,
Professor marked up his paper because he
Used Wikipedia for two citations instead
Of a legitimate encyclopedia;
"You should not use Wikipedia
The professor said rubbing his bald head,
I can't figure out where his head it located!"
Later he was on the phone talking back and forth
With some classmates,
Some of them have decided to file
A joint complaint with the provost office;
"The professor is wrong, he is old fashioned!
We must stop this abuse!" They agreed.
Four of them came with laptops, took over the kitchen,
And dining room table; their finger started
Buzzing on the keyboards like flying bees in a hive,
"They are old fashioned, in fear of letting go of
Their old ways, they are trying to hold on to nothing."
The chattering continued:
"When telegraph died
They blamed the newspapers,
When the newspapers died they blamed
The Internet, now they want to blame
Wiki for the death of the en-psycho-clops,
This is like science versus religion,
It's not the end of the news,
What if we had cited the source from television CBS news?"
They wanted my opinion,
I did not know what to say; see, back in my day
We had a shoe box with 3 by 5 cards
In the library, we also had typewriters with rounds keys
We had to retype a paper several times
And the spellings were still wrong.
It's not like what they do now with these laptop computers
So I had no idea what they were talking about.
But guess what? "No one told us that we
Had to stay in the shoe box!"
Joseph S. Spence, Sr. (aka "Epulaeryu Master"), authored "The
Awakened One Poetics" (2009), published in seven languages, "A Trilogy
of Poetry, Prose and Thoughts for the Mind, Body and Soul," and "Trilogy
Moments for the Mind, Body and Soul." Joseph is a Goodwill Ambassador
for Arkansas, and is a US Army veteran.
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