April 11: How Tweet It It

The World Beer Cup awards are streaming live,

While “Spring Awakening” has its Tweet night,

And “Don Quixote” spectators contrive

To keep the opera open one more night,

As my best friend quotes “Mary Poppins” lines,

Another, lyrics from They Might Be Giants,

I understand from corporeal confines

Technology delivers blithe defiance.

Yet no-one speaks aloud but to be heard

And conversations, few and far between,

Are meant to be remarked on and observed

And do betray a bright, self-conscious sheen.

It can be...