Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Pacifier

The whining started miles ago.
A mother digs through her purse
And retrieves the pacifier.
She turns around
And hands the device to her son
Buckled safely in the backseat.
Silence ensues.

Someday,
He'll play games
On his own cell phone.

2 comments:

Edward Yoo said...

Haha! I like the end reveal. Is this on the way back from Vegas?

Brent Vogelman said...

I made a comment to a friend that the cell phone is the new pacifier of the masses and he laughed, so I took a note, on my cell phone of course, for a future poem. I'm as much a victim of this pacification as anybody.