<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><b>“Smart Phone - Dumb User” </b>by Rick W. Cotton</div><div><br></div><div>My new phone is "smart." I guess that I'm not.</div><div>Amazing what all this here smart phone has got.</div><div>TV and Weather and Internet, too.</div><div>There's just no limits to what it can do.</div><div>Check my blood pressure and my temperature</div><div>Without even probing all my apertures.</div><div>I now know the time in Paris or Greece.</div><div>I can track the migration of thousands of geese</div><div>Or find Chinese food; it's here on this map.</div><div>Oops, my finger just slipped, now where was that at?</div><div>A camera...a CAMERA! Now I can take shots</div><div>Of everyone I know (who'd rather I not).</div><div>Push this here button and take me a "selfie."</div><div>(If it had a nose would this thing take a "smellfie"?)</div><div>Email to pester with, video to shoot,</div><div>Maps to drive 'round with, wow that's a hoot!</div><div>A compass to guide me home if I'm lost.</div><div>Thank God work paid for this thing (what it COSTS!).</div><div>The things that it does would amaze Mr. Bell.</div><div>What he would have thought of it, no one can tell,</div><div>But one question's still stuck in my middle-aged craw.</div><div>Despite all the gizmos that strike me with awe,</div><div>They're fun and they're useful and "techy" and all</div><div>...But how do I just simply make a phone call?</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></body></html>