Sonnets From Other Lives: Mitchell

--When everything’s reduced to ones & zeros
everybody can have anything.
Mitchell takes a long pull from his beer. --So
wanna hear Maria Callas sing?
Just push play--she’s right there in your head.
We all can play the digital flaneur.
The jukebox locks onto The Grateful Dead.
He signals to the waitress--two more beers.
--We got million Libraries of Alexandria
right here in our pocket with our phone.
How many hundreds of binary friends?
So how’d we get so alienated & alone?
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty.
It’s all good mate ‘cos this round’s on me.