The amateur luddite could do without the CPU
preferring instead the old Smith-Corona
He could see ridding his life of the TV
and its ads
No desire to own the latest PDA or DVD
He thinks it strange and cowardly that these products
hide themselves in acronym
Yes, he thinks, they’re probably planning
a wired, nightmarish
vocabulary coup
in which the English language
will slowly succumb
to the gradual implementation
of cute little two or three letter words
He wonders what is happening to our
crass and clunky language
he fears we are closing the creaking metal gates
of our Weird Word Festival and
auctioning off the remaining assets to
the eternally brilliant technocracy…
The luddite scratches out his short manifesto
in a beat-up spiral notebook
writing with a chewed no. 2 pencil
And he is
thick with guilt
as he quickly emails
another
finished
poem
to his
Editor
*The Amateur Luddite was originally published on KGP on 11 April 2006.
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I do like this one. And for what it’s worth, I do a lot of stuff on paper, even as wired as I am.
Err. New layout is supposed to be screwy?
Yeah, messing with a new theme possibility. Wish there was a way to play with this stuff without everyone else trying it out with you…
I like the paper too…
Depending on your hosting, you could make a copy of the blog in an alternate directory, and mess with it that way. That’s how I sometimes do the rare style changes I do.
Then again I have no idea what sort of access you have.
Its all so much easier with pen and paper.
Thanks for the tip C.
I’m going to clean the shotgun to clear my head…