zombies on phones

For National Poetry Day 2017

So it must be a thing then

this zombies on phones

plenty o stock images to choose frae 

but I've yet to see a poem bout the

phenomenon

of zombies on phones

but then I have led a sheltered life

apart from that time in Amsterdam 

when I saw everything through a red screen

my Dr Jekyll could not Hyde in those days.

"So wot makes dis a poem then gramps?

it's just a bunch of words man

that you are trying to shape into meaning"

"and failing"? I reply  

"I am not a father let alone a grandfather"

"Wot at your age?"

"You been hiding your dingle a ling ting

from de damsels"?

"Look I'm in distress can't you see"?

"You look fine to me bruv

keep your chin up

even if you can't keep anything else up

ya dig"?

"Yes I dig"

"I'll dig your grave

 you effing zombie on a phone".