Smart-phone

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Smart Phone

In the waiting room
sits a large number of travelers.

With one notable exception,
all of them are busy
with a little thing called “Smart Phone”
that fascinates them all the time.

With two thumbs at the same time
they write their stories,
meaningful or not they are written,
and sent out into the world.

Only one person does not write, but reads
—he reads a book!

Doesn’t he have anything to say?

Germain Droogenbroodt

Translated by the author and Stanley Barkan

from: “The Road of Being”
Southern Arizona Press, USA