Day after day with no entries in my Google calendar.
Tell a friend who lives in Philadelphia to move to Idaho.
Disable my Facebook messenger service, I mean, WTF!?
He’s 53 and has a 1 year old.  It’s hot.  I have a new shirt.
Re-check my Google calendar, still nothing.
17 likes on Twitter, 14 new followers, life is good, right?
$10.99 from Amazon, 50% algodon, made in El Salvador.
Fill the bird feeder, rabbit food, dogs, clean the cat shit.
Cat’s got to shit, right?
OK Google, what’s on my calendar?  Google?
How many calories in caffeine free diet coke?
Google?

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Eliot Jacobson

Eliot Jacobson is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science who has had a lifelong love affair with poetry.  Eliot has published several poems over the years but considers himself to be more of an affectionate spectator than a writer.  Eliot's poetry can be found at his website: www.totallydisconnected.com