This week movie fans of more than one generation celebrated a special day: Back to the Future Day. It’s taken a while (nearly 30 years), but at last the day that Marty McFly travelled to in the Delorean in Back to the Future II, October 21, 2015, has arrived (in fact it’s now past).
I hereby dedicate this week’s Poetry Friday to this anniversary.
Why, McFly?
Hey, McFly:
the future is here
the future is now.
But I have to ask:
when you sent yourself
thirty years into the future
did it seem
so very far away
that it was safe to predict
that future world?
Well, I was there in 1985
but I’m still here now
and what I want to know, McFly,
is
where’s my hoverboard?
(Poem Copyright Sally Murphy, 2015)
This week’s Poetry Friday Roundup is hosted by Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
What an easy to read and to enjoy poem on a Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the look back to the future. God bless you! Thank you!
That’s what everybody wants to know, isn’t it? Where’s my hoverboard??
Thanks for the fun poem, Sally.
Your poem made me smile — I’m waiting for my overboard too! Hard to believe 30 years has passed. It doesn’t seem “that” long ago that I first saw this wonderful film.
Sally, I am glad someone is writing about the Back to the Future rage on Twitter this week. I forgot all about it until I saw the hashtag and the Lexus hoverboard-very dystopian-like. I enjoyed your poem that made me think about the years that have flown by.
You do realise Lexus have made it for you, don’t you Sally? You may not be able to afford it… but it’s there! #mysonwantsone #thisishowiknow
Fun poem!