The Cloud

In simpler times cloud formations
were summer entertainment
lying on the hillside in the city park.

Brothers, sisters and neighborhood kids
made out shapes and told stories
entertaining each other for an hour
or more, but times have changed

half a century later
a cloud is a virtual place
to store memory, post music videos
and make political commentaries.

The first hours are free but then
can be accessed with a fee
paid in monthly installments for eternity.
invented by a man who died recently.

Who says you can’t take it with you?

This phenomena is the new normal
like an electric light switch and instant
television. Kids don’t wonder how it all works
they just want it faster and quicker
everything is obsolete before the next generation.

The world changes so rapidly
those summer days of languishing
on the hillside are gone

can’t even see the sky anymore
buried in electronic media accessories

ipod, iphone, ipad
maybe the brain is growing with these changes
intuition accelerating at a similar pace.

Here is a description of a cloud today:
automatic and effortless
seamlessly integrated into your apps,
so you can access your content on all your devices
and it’s free.