My Teacher's Cellphone

Heard a beeping sound

Followed by A very old Frank Sinatra’s song

My classmates’ heads turned

Whose phone? whose phone?

Less chaotic when the teacher glared

Everybody put their heads down

And checked their sophisticated mobile phones

Once again...

When the teacher wasn’t looking...

Mobile phones roamed in a dull classroom

Updating Facebook status,

Uploading candid photos of a snoring friend

Copy-pasting assignment

Text messaging and gossiping about their stern-looking teacher

In the name of advanced technology

Mobile smartphones create impossibles...

Beyond the blackboard and the four walls of the classroom

O o Frank Sinatra’s song again...

And everybody started looking...

The teacher grabbed her mobile phone

Tried to switch it off...

When students could own smartphones...

Who needs NOKIA from the old-time zone....?