RIP Steve Jobs

Death Does not carry a Smartphone

They called him “A genius;

Cut-down before his time,”

(As if one could remonstrate to Death’s

beckoning, “Not now, it isn’t my time!”)

Perhaps it was karma:        

A final disconnection,

Just retribution for the ruination

Of human conversation.

But no one at the table

Was listening, instead

Squinting into their iPhones

Reading tiny text messages

About nothing.