A is for AOL, an American creation,
and also for Appple, a big corporation.
B is for boredom so the web I do search,
for booties and boobies and Bulbasaur merch.
C is for Classflow, which I’ll use, no doubt,
in my future Classroom once I am out.
D is for Duo, who's doting on donors
to donate some dollars for new language learners.
E is for educators using Edmodo for class,
electronically engaging their students to pass.
F is for Facebook, where family’s found,
fearing photographs that add a few pounds.
G is for Google for researching ghee,
for frying up garlic in a good recipe.
H is for Hollywood, fueling the nation,
like Hooters and Hulu and TV sensation.
I is for Imgur and Instagram apps
initiating interest in Internet snaps.
J is for Jisho for Japanese nerds
joshing up jargon with Japanese words.
K is for Kindle, a keen book whiz,
and also Kahoot for creating a quiz.
L is for Lynda, Linkedin and LiveBinders,
the last of the three for sharers and finders.
M is for Moovly a short movie prop,
and also for Moodle which we adopt.
N is for Netflix for nodding at night,
needing NyQuil, not Natural Light.
O is for Office offering options so cool,
like Outlook and Onedrive which we use for school.
P is for Pandora, unlike the primeval,
purposely picks music partial to people.
Q is for Quora for queueing your questions,
and also for Quizlet for quick study sessions.
R is for radical Redditors ranting on rats,
and also for R for clean bio stats.
S is for Snapchat, Spotify, and Sway,
the first is for pictures, the next two press play.
T is for Twitter, which IMO is to blame,
but also for Tinder for the romantically insane.
U is for United which we all have flown,
and also UOG an institution homegrown.
V is for vicious villains vishing over Venmo
Wishing that they could be just as wealthy as Windows.
we might as well mention those X-rated sites,
whose commercials alone may give you a fright.
Y is for YouTube so much time I have spent,
and also for Yahoo whose emails I've sent.
Z is for zany zebras and zipping Zambonis.
Oh so silly, those black and white ponies.
And now that I've gone from alpha to zed,
from this last line I’m orally dead.
-K. Camacho (2018)
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