That Is So Twenty-Nine Seconds Ago

“That is so twenty-nine seconds ago,”

you glibly state through the flat screen

to show that we can’t make a go

of life in comparison to you.

However, having just learned that we

are so twenty-nine seconds late, we

take comfort in choosing not to care

about a 3, 4, 5, 6 g’s, infinity, high-octane,

technologically, powerful teensee-

weensee thing but can actually use crit-

ical thinking to work through a com-

plex problem with or without the aid

of a slide rule.