in great grandma’s wooden chair
the spare my office has
Next to me
back straight as a Marine
sat the latest geek!
I the geezer,
he the geek,
gazed at the computer screen
menus flashed
as he clicked along
Talk about fast!
My 120 year old chair
didn’t care, as usual,
but just think of great grandma sitting there
upstairs the washer hummed
cool air filled the room (geo-thermal)
electric lights made vision easy
and then comes the computer…
Giga bytes of memory
high speed connectivity
to the cyber world and Deere
My geek a natural speedster
taking to computers like, well, you know
College trained, company trained,
linked by cell phone to even more tech
Lightning clicks, directing the download,
entering info scoped on me
the farm
the fields
planting
harvest
plant varieties
yields
site specific info
a foretaste of glory divine?
Where intelligence is crystal clear
where God and man continually dine?
For you see, we know
so little
And each step along the way
we discover ‘there’s much more out there’!
Froth a behemoth first computer
to Blue Waters at the U of I
mechanical, electrical ‘intelligence’ grows
faster and faster and faster
until, who knows
what comes next?
My tech friend leaves
and I get his chair
Great grandma’s goes back in waiting
for another day
when some other person
connects me with some new knowledge
new power
to do it better
God bless the young folks!
And God grant us old folks peace
and courage to keep going forward!
Selah, Lin 9/10
John Deere Apex, Farm Management Software