You do know that Pokemons kill?
© PETER ANDERSSON

A MUSIC PARODY
BASED ON:
"A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS"
BY: JULIE ANDREWS



BONUS QUOTE:
"The challenge of modern relationships; how to prove more interesting than your partner's smartphone."
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Cellphone distractions can be deadly. Last year more people died from selfie related accidents than from shark attacks. And now there's Pokemon Go - some kind of electronic wildlife that lurks in snake den bushes, hide near railroads, play on freeway intersections and attack your attentiveness on a zigzag moving level. It could be claimed that Pokemons are now actually killing people in real life! Maybe that's a new form of darwinian culling?

Pokemons kill off the slow and unwitting
Catch up on all of the ways they are hitting
Lured to the freeway and pinned on a grill
That is just one way you're Pokemon-killed

Crushed to a pulp by a truck as you waddle
Fall to your death from a cliff as you dawdle
Stuck in a sewer pipe miles from your home
These are some ways you can die with your phone

Going off levees and skyscraper splashes
Getting too close in hot wildfire ashes
Leaning into crematorium flames
These are some ways you can die with the game

Catch a frostbite
Fall on shoestrings
Drown in unbarred tar
And always remember - Now Pokemons kill
Unless you've an e-lifeguard

Pokemon Go's like The Reaper on Tinder
Swipe wrong you die and swipe left maybe injured
Walking straight forward while sunk in their screens
Pokemons picks off a zillion teens

ISIS retires, Nintendo takes over
Death to America through iPhone drovers
Mine shafts fill up with a pied piper's app
That's if we fall for that Pokemon trap

Zombie-like humans now crawl in the gutter
"Gotta catch one more" we can hear them stutter
Pokemon rapture descends on their souls
As they are struck off the Pokemons' rolls

Catch your last rites
Save your offspring
From the railroad yard
And always remember - Now Pokemons kill
They've 'scaped from their trading cards



© Peter Andersson 2016

   

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