Downgrade

I do not want a smart phone anymore.

I want an ignorant phone,

a simpleton,

and wish I had the gumption to ditch the cellular phone entirely.

Admittedly, there is challenge in conveying Why,

which I can only accomplish through a hodgepodge of bullet points:

-Looking into a crowd and seeing large numbers of humans (young and old alike) staring aimlessly into their hands

-To resist a growing temptation to multi-task whilst driving

-To value silence, isolation, meditation, introspection

*WRITER'S NOTE: as if on cue from God herself, my cell phone just buzzed while I was in the middle of typing that sentence, which was coming to me on the fly, in an improvisational and jazzy way that I was enjoying, and is now dead.

I report to you, oh Beautiful Reader, with pure journalistic integrity, that the very buzz which raped my prose

was an email from Spin Magazine, containing a link to an article entitled,

 "MTV VMAs' 15 Biggest Mistakes"

 and that proves my point more than my wordy words ever could have.