Sam Bommarito shared a memory.
This memory from P David Pearson https://www.facebook.com/pdavid.pearson popped up today.
It’s about a poem he wrote. The timing couldn’t have been better. I just had a conversation today with Tun Rasinski https://www.facebook.com/timothy.rasinski and David Harrison https://www.facebook.com/david.l.harrison.37 about the numerous uses of poetry in reading instruction. Poems are meaning-rich, and they are often short. Those facts can make them a powerful tool for teaching literacy. It is a tool that is too often ignored. Tim, David, and I plan to have future conversations around this untapped literacy resource. In the meantime, I hope you have fun with David’s poem. Dr. Sam!
1 Year Ago
P David Pearson
One of the things I have been doing in retirement is writing poems–mainly doggerel that aspires to be amusing. This one, though, pleases me because it memorializes an all too real everyday routine. I call it Mobile Lover. You may recognize some of the characters!
I have a mobile lover
Whose name’s Potential Spam.
She calls from sites exotic,
Like Mumbai or Siam.
She calls at any hour
Of the night or of the day,
But sometimes when I answer,
She has nothing much to say.
At other times, it’s different.
And once she starts to speak,
I cannot seem to stop her;
She runs a steady streak.
Once her spiel is finished,
I politely say, “no thanks.”
And then she keeps on talking,
I think she is a crank!
But I hate to cut the tie,
Say, “no more calls at all.”
For if I take that action,
Then who, I ask, will call?
Who then will be my lover,
And call me night and day?
Be faithful and devoted
To endless mobile play?
I’ve heard that there are others
Who enjoy a chat or holler.
So, I’m trying to connect
With one named Unknown Caller.
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