Joey Cloudy online

“Nigga’ Technology”

I got my first cell phone last month

Black flat sleek plastic flip up camera 

like on the original star trek 

today I sent my first text to a girl friend.

I lost the power cord the second day.

Everybody show off the freak flicks

At work they wouldn’t understand

Why while walking down Matilda at

Richmond I stop and take pictures

Of the dead squirrel on the sidewalk.

With my cell phone camera

I don’t have a girl friend haven’t 

Not for six months now it seems

No pictures of my ex girl friend

In the nude striking obscene poses

Just a dead brown squirrel 

in various states

Of decomposition 

and you’re the only one 

Who would understand 

why this is so romantic.