image: Dana Ellyn, Pierced Nipples, 2009
To A Certain Section of Our Population
— Kenneth Patchen
It is ordered now
That you push your beliefs
Up out of the filth high enough
For the inchworm to get their measure.
16-bit Intel 8088 chip
— Charles Bukowski
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
To Do
— Elaine Equi
for Joe Brainard
Never finish everything
on your to do list.
It will look as if you have nothing
better to do.
