Con-veniences

This modern world has country heads a-buzzing, it is true,

Computer terms, most farmers find a challenge to get through.

So here is a tutorial. It’ll help you all to see,

Just what these crazy terms should mean to you and also me . . .

Log on: is something you should do to make the homestead warm.

Log off: Watch out! The tree is chopped and falling. (Could cause harm.)

Mega Hertz: When you’re not careful as you fetch the wood.

Lap top: Cat’s ‘purr-ferred’ sleeping place where all is well and good

Hard drive: Maneuv’ring vehicles through mud or rocky ground.

Windows: Those are what you shut when snow is all around.

Byte: Is what mosquitoes do, those pesky little fiends.

Modem: Work at haying time when fields are being gleaned.

Keyboard: Something near the door where all the keys are hung.

Mouse: Those critters in the barn you’re forced to live among.

Then ‘Random Access Memory’ or RAM, ‘cause sure enough,

It’s when you can't remember any of this awful stuff.

So there you have it and you know the ‘country’ explanation,

Now can you understand us farmers’ up-to-date frustration?

Mondays do get knocked a lot,

With poetry, we three besought,

To try to make the week begin,

With gentle thoughts--perhaps a grin?

So Jenny and Delores, we,

Now post our poems for you to see.

And when you’ve read what we have brought,

Did we help? Or did we not . . .

Next week, just watch us as we dance,

When we three tackle ignorance!