A Time Before Machines Comments

I like this poem for the message it contains-'to prove that we were still connected' Thank you. Jim

Well Menonights do everything by hand They don't believe in electricity They use the old washing mashing thad wash clothes by turning the handle They are very old

This speaks the truth about our lives today. The only solace would be the discovery of that someone we could sit beside of. That, I think, is what your poem says. GW62

I am really feelings this, we become absorbed into the theory of modernization and forget about how life really used to be. Thats why I live on a farm, so I could get away from 'machines'