New Computer
From the book The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!
We have bought a new computer
that’s the fastest ever seen.
It has terabytes of mem’ry
and a forty-eight inch screen.
It has all the latest gizmos
and accessories galore.
It has every last peripheral
they carried at the store.
It has disk drives by the dozen
it has twenty-seven mice,
and it even has a microwave
included in the price.
It can teach you how to mambo.
It can play the violin.
It can calculate the distance
from Botswana to Berlin.
It can speak in seven languages
with scholarly finesse,
then defeat the world’s grandmasters
in a tournament of chess.
It can conjure anti-gravity,
or build a time machine.
Our computer is undoubtedly
the fastest ever seen.
When we went and bought it yesterday
we thought it pretty neat,
but today our new computer
is already obsolete.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2001. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 5
Topics: Poems about Friends and Family, Science and Technology Poems, Shopping
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Descriptive Poems, Hyperbole, Imagery, Irony, Superlatives
Word Count: 140
From the book The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!
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