Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Elegy for Overheads


I overheard these overheads
reflecting on the past -
and about the future
(how neither seems to last).

Their conversation clattered-gasped
as they each recalled
how their forty(?) years of service
was now permanently stalled.

They reigned supreme at Afton High
surpassing chalk and slate,
but now the SmartBoards have arrived
to make them out-of-date.

Each step and leap of learning
trades on what we’ve learned and know.
“The media is the message”
and so it has to grow.

The question is, like pens and chalk,
do they belong in a museum?
Or should we keep them close at hand
where we can use and see ‘em?

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