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s A man and his computer, Best friends or enemies? I have a love-hate relationship With my computer I have been writing with the aid Of a computer Now for almost 40 years Having bought my first computer In 1984 Over the years I must have written Millions of words And over the years My computer Must have lost Thousands of words My computer likes to play games With me Crashing for no reason Endless non-response blue spinning wheels making me wait for up to five minutes then letting me see it just ate the words and they are gone into the ether never to be found again sometimes the undo button works other times it does not sometimes the copy-and-paste feature wipes out the previous text and for good measure turns off the undo button often trying to open a document is an exercise in shear frustration constantly getting strange haiku error messages such as there is a dialogue box open close the dialogue box but there is no visible dialogue box but the worst error message of all was when I tried to copy non-excel data I would receive a message Saying There are no fonts available Okay yes or no Once I clicked okay 250 times Before my computer crashed I reported this to Microsoft Nothing but radio silence As usual I shifted to google docs And the problem was solved I could go on and on But I grow weary Of recounting all the ways My computer loves To mess with me. April 29, 2023: Poetry Writing Prompt from William Bianchi This poetry writing prompt submitted by William Bianchi: Write a poem about the relationship between two objects (or people, if you prefer). Here are some suggestions for directions you can take this prompt in: • The spatial/positional relationship between two objects (e.g. a book sitting on top of a shelf, a tray of cookies baking inside an oven) • The interpersonal/symbiotic/interactive relationship between two objects/people (e.g. a cat relying on a blanket for warmth, a child being dependent on their caretaker, spaghetti cooperating with tomato sauce to form a tasty meal, a light bulb and a lamp working together to provide light) • The symbolic relationship between two or more objects (e.g. withering flowers in a dry vase might represent neglect and hundreds of books in a library might represent collective knowledge) Please feel free to stray from these suggestions. Have fun writing! If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group. |