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Cell Phone Mania by Michael Lee Johnson

Hollow people,
small people with big ear openings,
aisle walkers of endless babble-
big heads, small heads, big thoughts,
no thoughts at all, mounds of 
words piling up on each other.
Free time is cell phone time.
Jaw bone structures jumbling up and down
like pairs of disjointed loose lips;
skeletons of moving gestures
fingers, and hands dancing in the air
pointing to here, pointing to there;
scare those who walk beside them
scare those who sit beside them
in moving cars.
Peapods cell phones jammed in and around
earlobes like miniature rubber mallets.
Speaker phone gadget grinding against white teeth
Conversations, at the grocery store, dripping out
of dried mouths about brand cans of  peas or pears,
which softness of diapers preferred for the babies ass.
Free time is cell phone time.
They roam and talk everywhere seriously about nothing.
Weekends are free times for ignoring the rest of the universe.
Babies carry deactivated phones with 911options
in grocery push carts designed like miniature cars.
The world is a plastic phone shaped and held
like a household fixture communicating
with no one, no one of consequence
or importance.
Free time is cell phone time.

Bio: Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is heavy influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, and Leonard Cohen.   250 plus poems published. He is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc; Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory . Recent publications: The Orange Room Review , Bolts of Silk , Chantarelle's Notebook , The Foliate Oak Online Literary Magazine , Poetry Cemetery , Official Site of Laura Hird,   The Centrifugal Eye, Adagio Verse Quarterly , Scorched Earth Publishing, and many others.  Published in USA, Canada, New Zealand,   Australia, Nigeria Africa, India, United Kingdom.  Mr. Johnson has a paper book pending publication with  iUniverse Publishers. Michael Lee Johnson's 1st  chapbook of poems and his first paperback of poems both available for purchase or download at: "The Lost American: A Tender Touch & A Shade Of Blue" (Chapbook with 57 pages) http://www.lulu.com/content/936633 "The Lost American II:  From Exile to Freedom (Full paperback with 98 pages) http://www.lulu.com/content/972649