The cassette tapes<\/p>\n
Were talking to the CD’s<\/p>\n
Seems they never get touched anymore<\/p>\n
Ignored<\/p>\n
Placed on a shelf<\/p>\n
While the digital music replaces them<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The albums are long gone<\/p>\n
Victim to one too many moves<\/p>\n
They all wondered where they were now<\/p>\n
In a landfill perhaps<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The cassettes lamented how they loved to be wound and rewound<\/p>\n
How they were soothed when a pencil saved them from certain doom<\/p>\n
The CD’s in their high and mighty way<\/p>\n
Talked about how they missed doing the shuffle on a Saturday night<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
They shared grand stories of giant stereo systems<\/p>\n
With AM\/FM radios<\/p>\n
Speakers that took half a room<\/p>\n
How their music pounded the walls<\/p>\n
Until the neighbors complained<\/p>\n
“That was rock and roll,” the cassettes sang<\/p>\n
” Those were the good old days,” sang the CD’s<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
They looked at one another<\/p>\n
Longing for the olden days<\/p>\n
They stared at the MP3 player gathering dust<\/p>\n
” It’s all in their phones now,” it said.<\/p>\n
“We have been sold out by microchips and convenience.”<\/p>\n
They all sighed<\/p>\n
Wondering if they would end up<\/p>\n
In a second hand store,<\/p>\n
In the garbage<\/p>\n
Or left on a shelf forgotten<\/p>\n
The future looked bleak for them all<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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