The old laptop in Numbers Man by Phil Kaye indicates how loss can affect people. This poem is told from the perspective of an owner’s old laptop. It feels like the friendship with its owner is gone because he left it for a newer, thinner, and better looking laptop. The old laptop has stored every piece of information about his owner and it feels like it has been abandoned by the action of the owner never using his old laptop even though his old laptop is remarkably close to him and knows everything about him. This is evident when the old laptop says, “I sit here, with his portraits waiting for him to return, I do not think he will.” (Kaye 65-67). This shows that the old laptop feels a loss without its owner. The impact of the loss has changed
