Clark Gormley #33 Early adopter

she caught the first Paywave

while we fumble for our Opal cards

she’s already tapped and gone

and while we rode our dragsters

she passed us on a segue

cottoned onto lycra

way before the Tour

de France was hip

in 1986

she owned a cellphone

the size of a brick

used it for weight training

somehow upgrades

the operating system

of her smart phone

before the release date

and bugs, she loves them

like an entomologist

doesn’t complain

but identifies them

and notifies

the manufacturer

with the zeal of a Hansonite

dobbing in a terrorist

wore a nose ring in the 70s

tatts in the 80s

was eating quinoa when Gorby

brought down the wall

smashed avocado

during 9/11

while we were peeking

at the girl next door

through the crack in the fence

she was flying

drone mounted cameras

for her surveillance

company

she stopped using

plastic bags

in 2007

and for some reason

a long while back

she left her beachside

apartment and moved

to higher ground