Conversation Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

My Landline phone was ringing
I picked up
It was my bosom friend’s call
…Good morning my friend
Why your smart phone is switched off?
I told … it makes me stupid
So I use it minimum.
Ha..Ha, Then why you purchased it?
To maintain the illogical status.
Wherever I go, I keep it in my hand
People think … I am updated
…If you keep it on, what’s the harm?
I don’t want to be a smart phone junkie
The ‘TV’ locked people inside house
And smartphone within it
I don’t like to be slave of it
And to be the victim of digital addiction
If it is on … I speak less to my wife
I don’t speak to my children
I don’t go to my neighbors, relatives
And become busy with those people
Whom I don’t know physically.
… Are you all right?

Yes my friend, I am all right
Will you tell me something about you?
Are you suffering from headache,
Impaired memory and concentration,
Fatigue, dizziness, disturbed sleep,
Change in eating style
Or concerned of electrosensitivity?
If yes, it’s are the symptoms of
Radiation sickness.
He laughed and said
Yes I have many of them
Recently a tumor also developed
On the rear of my head.
I said, switch off your smart phone
For a week
And observe yourself.
Next week I will meet you
At your residence in the evening.
Good night.

I ended the call.