i was recently sitting in a bagel shop
waiting for a friend.
Only one other customer was present
a friend of the two employees.
They all sat together and talked of nothing
but slandered others that they knew.
I never saw them set their smart phones down.
They seemed to always be glued to their hands
as well as to their eyes,
even while in discussion with one another.
In the modern world
it is common in any moment of waiting
or any other possible silence
that my generation must fill
a self-constructed void.
Mostly with
thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays.
What did 20-year-olds do before
the invention of portable screens?
Did they sit still and quiet, like myself?
I find it healing to take time away
from technology
for long periods at a time.
I was an absolute freak sitting in this bagel shop
with nothing to "kill the time"
but my own thoughts
and imagination.
I was not bored
And I was not concerned
with other places
or other people.
How very un-hip of me.
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