Undoubtedly, my favorite poet is Charles Bukowski. Here is “16-bit Intel 8088 chip,” one of the few poems of his having to do with computers. I’m rather fond of it.
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
handwritting
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.
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[1986,book] bibtexC. Bukowski, You get so alone at times it just makes sense, Black Sparrow Press, 1986.
@BOOK{bukowski_alone,
author = {Charles Bukowski},
title = {You get so alone at times it just makes sense},
publisher = {Black Sparrow Press},
year = 1986 }
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I am old enough to have seen Bukowski give a reading.
This was in Chicago in the mid-70s. He vouchsafed
to the audience that he’d had a quart of gin in his
hotel room just before (surprise!). I can’t recall
much about the reading, except that detail!
– Paul
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