Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Let Us Now Praise Word Processing Software

As I type this
my computer watches what I'm doing,
leads me not into temptation
but delivers me from spelling and grammatical errors
and it, automatically, through no effort of mine,
makes my i an I,
and I continue to type, but with this thought:
I am thirty nine years old
and my computer has a higher opinion of me
than i do,

this does not reassure me
because i know something that it does not know:
my computer might be able to save the things
that i write,
but it can't save me.

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