iPhone

 

Starless and Babel black oblong keepsake

claw grip upways a prod springs colour,

universe in universal remake

your own self holds, palm reading futures.

Charge up the silicon valley of debt!

Each one its own start-up datacentre,

candid camera private details net

nonstop news c/- rich tech inventors.

Who is this I who phones each one of us

in breathless apps clocks email spendthrift spam

updating itself with no further discuss?

Lock, stock and barrel passwords’ great I Am.

Colours chart back to black times repeated

taking IDs contacts not deleted.

 

Smartphone

 

Not shoe phone, smartphone each its very own,

an eye, ready retina, a cyclops.

Like an old dog with a new bone

no wires or static but qwerty nonstops.

Smartarsed, a very stable genius,

an individual of aptitudes:

pictures by the second to extremis

with downloadable attitudes.

Each individual smart as the next

curls in corners, finds gaze, flicks fixes flat

the life stream into babylons of text,

dreams now locations, indulges in chat:

to your own selfie be true multicelled!

The end of the world is at hand, handheld.

 

Tomato

 

don’t put off for tomato what’s up today

   pull from the punnet starting to leaf

   and push into compost of total belief

 

yesterday today and tomato

   transcribes genetic patterns year to year

   human chat prizing their ready progress

 

tomato and tomato and tomato

   readier than ever bursts its bonds

   rounder and sounder and under wonder

 

the forecast for tomato is variable

   with areas of soft around the edges

   sunny disposition and increasingly wet

 

all said and done tomato is another day

   olé bouquet of creamy soup

   fruity beauty of salad sandwich