"At the Berkeley Free Speech Cafe"
by Thomas R. Moore
The students are seated,
one to a table,
at tables for two,
ears wired,
laptops humming,
cell phones buzzing,
fingers texting,
iPods thumping,
toes drumming,
email flashing,
lattés cooling,
textbooks open,
reading for an exam
in Issues in Contemporary Culture 102.
Such a simple, yet biting poem about our modern day priorities. And I think I love the poet because his name is similar to that of St. Thomas More, the lawyer-saint.
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