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
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
regarding the move… so is or rather was that the progression… first you had a knife (perhaps as a cub scout or something) then you had a gun, the 870, (perhaps as an eagle scout?) and now you have a pen?
check me out… three words and suddenly I’m nancy drew
well hopefully nobody wants to “front” on the new domain name, I imagine the only people who might would be the makers of secret spy sort of things and as we all know they like to keep their creations on the downlow. for the surprise factor I’m guessing.
nice new digs
Yeah, well, you know the old saying atlas….
The pen is mightier…
Those who use it always refer to that quip as meaning a good thing, I’m not so sure. The pen can also cause a lot of trouble and bring on some serious heartache. We’ll just have to find out.