by T.C Leonard

Created on: June 30, 2010

"For Simplicity's Sake"

Times, they are a-changin'

Though I haven't gotten far-

Just yesterday I figured out

My blasted VCR

I'm like Wile E. Coyote,

A beast so far off course

He couldn't stop a scrawny bird

With tons of megaforce

My new car is computerized,

And much to my delight

I ride around-all over town-

With lit check engine light

Thus, just like Don Quixote

These wheels are my foil-

Seems I lack a Ph. D

And cannot change the oil

What, pray tell, does HD mean?

It really gets my goat

My TV set is always off

Because of my remote-

A complicated, cursed thing

On which I can't depend

That operates best in the hands

Of children less than ten

Electronic devils plague me-

This left-behind old dude

Can't operate a microwave

And can't prepare his food...

Can't set a damned alarm clock

Or make a pot of tea

For things contrived to simplify

Have got the best of me

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