Obsolete
By Michael Salinger
Obsolete is absolutely useless
although in the past
he was reasonably handy
time—it kept on ticking and he
just never bothered to adapt
so now he gets passed over
sits in the corner collecting dust
his colors are fading
his chrome has started to rust
but don't feel too bad for obsolete
his future is not completely bleak
as long as he keeps hanging on
eventually he'll become an antique
[obsolete: no longer useful; outmoded]
Copyright Credit: Michael Salinger, "Obsolete" from Well Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme. Copyright © 2009 by Michael Salinger. Reprinted by permission of Michael Salinger.
Source: Well Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme (Wordsong Press, 2009)