The Chinese have a term for cell phone users: Ditouzhu 低頭族（低头族), or the clan of those with lowered heads. It encompasses the young and the old, the mobile and the bedridden. Everyone with a cell phone attached.
Cell phone users are slowly catching on. On the popular show Shark Tank, 2 guys pitched the "NoPhone", which is literally a useless hunk of plastic that pretends to be a phone. It helps users wean themselves off the phone. I'm not sure what is more shocking, the fact that it costs $10 or the fact that it's an utterly junk piece of plastic. There are serious reviews on amazon for the product, and I can only chalk this up as the marquee gag gift of 2015.
Smartphones are ubiquitous, not likely to go away anytime soon. It's a tremendous amount of power held in our hands, to connect to almost anyone around the world. Sometimes having power requires knowing when not to use it.
Far from being a cell phone hating poem, today's poetry is a humorous look at every modern user of the phone.
Chinese calligraphy, cellphone poetry
