My Smartphone Isn’t Very Smart
A Funny Technology Poem for Kids
From the book My Cat Knows Karate
My smartphone isn’t very smart.
In fact, it’s rather dumb.
It’s dumber than a doorknob
or a piece of chewing gum.
It used to be so awesome,
but now my phone is lame.
It cannot surf the Internet.
It cannot play a game.
It can’t take any pictures.
It can’t install an app.
It can’t look up my email
or an address on a map.
It won’t play any music.
It cannot calculate.
It won’t bring up a calendar
to show the time or date.
It cannot send a message.
It cannot make a call.
It’s safe to say my smartphone
won’t do anything at all.
It wasn’t always like this.
Perhaps you’ll take a peek?
I don’t know why it acts like this.
I charged it just last week!
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 1
Topics: Science and Technology Poems
Poetic Techniques: Descriptive Poems, Irony, List Poems
Word Count: 136
From the book My Cat Knows Karate
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