You Need Me: An Ode from My iPhone

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I am a window to all things
Happening
I am the voices that won’t stop
Chattering

I am your first touch at dawn
Your last glance at night
And not to be a racist
But you love that I am white

When you first held me
Our love was on
Like so much donkey kong
Finally devoid of your stupid droid

Now you can’t let me be
You'll never put me down
You'll not forsake me
Not even on nights on the town

I know more secrets than your lover
You'll never leave me for another
Like some new young thing
Just to hear serious Siri sing

I feel you looking for me
Your eyes searching surfaces
Your panic unable to see
That I wait for you in ecstasy

When we travel your hand reaches
To touch me for a moment
To know I'm still there
You must take me everywhere

Sometimes I hide
Just to tease you
I like when you miss me
Then you understand all that I am

This is your punishment
For there is nothing worse
When you're not close to me
I don't belong in a purse

You know how to touch me
Your strong finger seduces
And your thumb rubs
Softly upon my button

You stroke me gently
While thinking
I wait patiently and
Your wish is my command

I will take you to foreign lands
I will show you all you need to know
I will excite you and delight you
I must go wherever you go

Take me to exotic places
And I will show you what love means
Caress me like you know me
And I will show you your dreams


Do objects have a memory? Does a rocking chair hold the essence of the snuggles it has witnessed? Does a pottery mug remember the comforting warmth it offered a struggling soul?
The dictionary defines personification as “the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.” Write on Edge the RemembeRED challenge

26 comments:

Kristina said...

Hahahahaha!! I LOVE this!! As a recently converted iPhone user, this made me laugh out loud. This was my favorite line:
"And not to be a racist

But you love that I am white"

ThePishPosh said...

I hear it in my head like a valley girl "like, not to be racist..." and then some racist thing follows. I wonder if iPhones talk like valleygirls.

Do you have Siri? I don't. I am okay with that.

J. Bruno said...

I want Siri so bad.  I have complete and total iPhone envy.  Solely based upon my obsession with Instagram and Siri.  

This was such a a fun piece.

ThePishPosh said...

Why man why! Siri's not all that. But iPhones are better than crack (I'm guessing) and Instagram will steal your life.

Thanks!

Barbara @ de rebus, via WoE said...

LOVE this. I especially love the sensual language... this is a rather naughty iphone!

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel said...

Oh, my goodness! I don't have an iPhone but it was the buttons that gave it away. Very unique! Love it a lot, especially, "I feel you looking for me." I can see our phones sitting there and following  us around with it's make-believe eyes.

From Tracie said...

This is great. You are making me want an iPhone - BAD! 

ThePishPosh said...

Do it!! :) and thanks!

ThePishPosh said...

It is so needy!

ThePishPosh said...

Yes it's a bit creepy really :) Thank you Mary

LA Juice said...

Holy shit. Siri open the pod door...

le chef said...

I'm going to be electronically racist; I inherited my hub's phone, and it is white.  Oh how I wanted the black!
The love affair with ones phone; kind makes you wonder, and you got it all down so nicely and spot on - LOL

ThePishPosh said...

Indeed! You can cover the white with a black case ;)

ThePishPosh said...

Siri is as Siri does..

Liesl Garner said...

I don't even know how to comment on your blog. You're so darned funny! Thank you for being witty and you!

ThePishPosh said...

Thanks Liesl - your first name is one of my favorites!

boho said...

Iphone sketch from Portlandia. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfnziuW4wLk

Angie Kinghorn said...

I'm never going to be able to look at my iPhone the same way again! 

"You know how to touch me
Your strong finger seduces
And your thumb rubs
Softly upon my button"
Ack!!!

Jeane said...

It is probably best that phones can't yet fill out stalker forms.  Or can they?  Great love poem...and I can't relate!

ThePishPosh said...

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I just feel my phone staring at me. Judging me.

Not really. But phones sure can be used to stalk people. Do you know about some of the stalker apps they have?

ThePishPosh said...

Ha ha! Phones are seksy!

ThePishPosh said...

My worst panic moments are when I think I've left my phone somewhere. Total nightmare existential crisis for 2 minutes.

As for breaking, I've never broken a phone physically. You don't even KNOW the kind of case I have on my phone right now.  I would really have to run it over to break it. Nah, I break my phones INSIDE. With spilling drinks and such.

Vesta Vayne said...

Is Siri the thing where you can ask it questions and it answers? Because I just discovered that feature on my husband's iphone and was amazed, so I looked at him and said "what the f*ck?" and the phone voice said "Now, now. I respect you."

I can't decide if it's good or bad that a phone has the ability to scold me...but I really DO need to stop dropping f-bombs.

Abeerfortheshower said...

Even without an iPhone, I'm addicted to my phone. My favorite is when I lose it for an afternoon, and panic, then when I find it I have 0 texts and 0 calls, making me look like a jackass. An unpopular jackass.

ThePishPosh said...

Are you shitting me?

I don't have Siri I think she would piss me off :)

ThePishPosh said...

That is very sad my friend. That never happens to me.

Ahem. Okay sometimes maybe.