Thumb Think

I am from an earlier age

when we used all of our fingers

to type out a letter, a story, or

a lovely poem that lingers;

typing as we thought of words

until the thought was written;

but it’s like kids think today

that fingers are forbidden.

Flying thumbs is what I call them,

zipping o’er the letters

while their fingers curl, unused,

bowing to their betters.

I guess the reason they use thumbs

instead of all their digits

is they’re only using two

and not ten, lazy igits!