Stop all the beeps

Stop all the beeps, turn off your mobile phone,
Prevent the PDAs chirping with a message from home,
Close up your Moleskine and rest a tired thumb
Turn a new page no more; your to-do list is done.

Let Twitterers twitter from under their beds
Typing out the message Productivity is Dead.
Close all open windows with the icons above,
The hour has now come to find your real love.

Spend more time with your family, music or art.
Your working week needn’t play a big part.
Those ‘productivity secrets’ were here all along;
Thought GTD was the answer? Perhaps you’re wrong.

Those apps are not needed: uninstall every one;
Pack up your computer, rediscover the sun;
Silence your iPod, take a walk in green woods.
For wasting a life never came to any good.

by Nick Cernis (with credit to W.H Auden)