Video Conferencing Poem by Alan Bruce Thompson

How to attend the meeting without traveling around the world?
To be in ten places at once before the news grows old?

The video conference should solve all that,
But solves very little if we need to meet not just chat.

To smell the body, feel the soul, and simply be there,
Cannot be achieved via the ether or waves in the air.

But it’s money, not people, that really counts,
A CEO doesn’t need eye contact in large amounts.

To talk with great authority from within the screen,
Is all that is needed to distinguish my reality from your dream.

But wait what’s going on here?
Mr. Smith on the screen was Mr. Jones last year.