Doggerel Dave

Modern Life

No mobile phone, an essential to live

Completely in this world I’m often told.

Could I ask why, if I may be so bold?

It seems some online suppliers connive

                              I think                         

To make make me live a life of frustration.

My alcohol and food I buy online,

Get delivered – for years it’s been just fine.

Now Multi Factor Authentication

                              They say                          

Saves me unauthorised account access

Using a onetime code to - you’ve guessed it…

My mobile phone – and nothing else will fit;

But I live a simple life without excess.

                             Now I’m

Obviously not built for modern life.

Beset by such problems I need to go

To somewhere quiet, ponder this and show

Some initiative, then acquire a wife……