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Sharon Kourous
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Sofia, not yet two, lips pacifier-clamped,
and eyes a brown sparkle, twinkles through the house.
In pudgy hands an old computer mouse:
"Ola?" she asks it. Diapered, damp,
she runs away with my remote
and punches Barney up. She grins,
outsmarting all chair-bound adults
who thought to watch the news. She wins.
Though not yet two, she's mastered mysteries
of button phones and VCR's and keyboard keys;
knows what a button's for, while we
children of another age cannot quite master
programmables without disaster.
Though we are teachable -- she's faster.
~Sharon Kourous
Poet Sharon Kourous lives in northwest Ohio where she teaches high school English. Her work has appeared in print and on the web. Email.
© 2001 by Sharon Kourous. All Rights Reserved.
© 2000-2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated April 30, 2002.