iPhone Epitaph
Rose Gold
Here lie the shattered remains
of Liz’s iPhone 7.
It succumbed to the weight of her minivan
and now it rings in heaven.
As always, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes has a wonderful interview and inspirational challenge on her blog this month. This time the interview takes the form of a mock Newly Read Game featuring the ins and outs of writing partners J Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen. The end comes too early with a challenge from their featured book, Last Laughs Prehistoric Epitaphs.
My epitaph may not be prehistoric, but I hope it’s humorous. It’s been a tough month for technology around here. I spilled an entire cup of tea on my laptop and dropped my phone face down on the sidewalk. Fortunately all my data survived.
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Aww, poor phone! “Succumbed” is such a great word, isn’t it? Here’s hoping the rest of your tech can stay intact.
Ha! Hilarious!
Liz, so sorry about your phone! At least you got a poem out of it, right? 🙂 xo
Oh my! I worry about any drinks near the laptop for just that ‘oops’! Sorry for the phone, too, glad you kept the data, hope “for heaven’s sake” your phone had a pretty ring! Delightful epitaph, Liz!
This was so funny, Liz. Thanks for offering your Snowfall image poem for my winter gallery. Maybe you have a winter epitaph poem just for fun for the gallery…
Poor iPhone, your epitaph sure is funny though–glad you were able to salvage your data!
LOVE this! I have tried and tried, but haven’t had epitaph success…YET!
Awww….poor phone. At least you did find the humor in it. Unbelievably, my daughter’s iPhone survived being run over by our Edge. We’ve been believers in Otter Boxes ever since. For a long time you could see the tire tracks across the back of the case, but the phone never missed a beat or a ring.
Oh no! Both in one week. Glad data survived. Your epitaph is too funny.
Guess who was phone-less yesterday? Yep. The technology curse made its way to me! It was some kind of software glitch which, thankfully, I was able to repair in recovery mode instead of doing a factory reset and losing all my data. But, man, was it ever upsetting at the time. I’m thinking it might have been Rose’s ghost that came to my rescue! 🙂
Noo! Poor phone! Poor laptop! Poor you! But fantastic epitaph, Liz. Technology is double edged, it’s a pain to deal with at times, but we are so dependent on it now. =)
Thanks for the funny poem. Sorry to hear about the tech mishaps, though.
I love your epitaph! So funny…..I wonder if your phone has met my daughter’s glasses that met the same fate at a soccer match. Terrible way to die. My condolences.
Ha! Your epitaph made me smile. I should write one to the myriad water bottles I’ve droped and broken.
Liz ~ Thanks for sharing your epitaph of a phone’s aftermath! Sometimes I have a run of tech issues…my son says I have tech poltergeist…and he’s only 1/2 kidding…
Liz! What a happy aftermath in that phone’s epitaph! Glad your technology wasn’t permanently incapacitated. My son swears there’s some kind of a technology poltergeist in my writing room…and maybe he’s right…
HAHAHA! But not for your poor phone. Hilarious poem, though. ;0)
LOL Great one. My iPhone 4 succumbed to my front-landing, water-saving washer. It had just enough water to do the job.
Great epitaph poem. I hope that writing it was the silver lining to experiencing it!