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<\/a>Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh<\/span><\/p>\n
Gary Snyder<\/span><\/p>\n Because it broods under its hood like a perched falcon,<\/p>\n Because it jumps like a skittish horse and sometimes throws me,<\/p>\n Because it is poky when cold,<\/p>\n Because plastic is a sad, strong material that is charming to rodents,<\/p>\n Because it is flighty,<\/p>\n Because my mind flies into it through my fingers,<\/p>\n Because it leaps forward and backward, is an endless sniffer and searcher,<\/p>\n Because its keys click like hail on a boulder,<\/p>\n And it winks when it goes out,<\/p>\n And puts word-heaps in hoards for me, dozens of pockets of gold under boulders in streambeds, identical seedpods strong on a vine, or it stores bins of bolts;<\/p>\n And I lose them and find them,<\/p>\n Because whole worlds of writing can be boldly laid out and then highlighted and vanish in a flash at \u201cdelete,\u201d so it teaches of impermanence and pain;<\/p>\n And because my computer and me are both brief in this world, both foolish, and we have earthly fates,<\/p>\n Because I have let it move in with me right inside the tent,<\/p>\n And it goes with me out every morning;<\/p>\n We fill up our baskets, get back home,<\/p>\n Feel rich, relax, I throw it a scrap and it hums.<\/p>\n thank you, Stephen, for the pointer!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Gary Snyder Because it broods under its hood like a perched falcon, Because it jumps like a skittish horse and sometimes throws me, Because it is poky when cold, Because plastic is a sad, strong material that is charming to rodents, Because it is flighty, Because my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-2630119208243002802?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\")