76 Slack Chats
Our interruptions are more numerous, and less melodic than trombones. And the virtuosos are now called "10x developers."
"76 Slack Chats"
Seventy-six Slack chats bugged the CTO
With a hundred and ten sub-threads to address.
They were followed by tales of sales from an inbox
full of emails, the price of modern tech success!
Seventy-six new chats hit the smartphone screen,
While a hundred and ten fresh texts need replies,
There were more than a thousand tweets
And expense receipts
And PRs for failing APIs…
There were cavalcades of pop-up ads in scrolls of doom
Each disrupts, interrupts, leading thought astray,
Instagram and Snapchat while we meet on Zoom
Each consumes more of our thought each day!
There were 50 likes and other phony flattery,
Each appears, interferes, answer or ignore?
UX filled with latency
Diminishing our agency
Alerts our attention must explore!
Written By: "Weird Ev" Coopersmith & AE Studio
"76 Trombones"
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest
virtuosos, the cream of ev'ry famous band.
Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
There were more than a thousand reeds
Springing up like weeds
There were horns of ev'ry shape and kind.
There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
Each bassoon having its big, fat say!
There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery
Thundering, thundering louder than before
Clarinets of ev'ry size
And trumpeters who'd improvise
A full octave higher than the score!
Written By: Meredith Wilson, 1957
