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A Doctrine of Recollection
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After Dinner at McDonald's
Untitled
The Speaker's Last Thoughts
Cityscape – Scranton, PA

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Computer Dreams

 

Steve Clark

 

I tried to impress her with the size of my RAM,
but she called my bluff, saying,
"Guys are like %n, different names for the same scam."
So I attempted to demonstrate my Programming Wit,
But she outdid me with her magnificent Java Script.
We met on Yahoo! in a chat for lovers of Dell,
(AOL.s just an LAN for Losers, LOL).
After she sent me an .IMG,
my emoticon.s jaw dropped and I said "OMG!"
"Apple or Windows?" she asked in her foxy Fandango font.
I smiled at her trick and looked to my input device,
"I only use Linux," and it was love at first type.
Some days we joked, like when she called me ENIAC.
"I may be outdated, but I started it all,"
I replied. "Oh yeah? Then why can't you break down my firewall?"
I liked where this was going, and so I responded,
"I could do it with BASIC," and she smiled, I think.
Then one day I started to reveal my computer dreams
of a Nation where different languages, colors, and races
would be deleted like nonessentials after a thorough System Clean.
But immediately she said "G2G,"
and that was the end of BinaryBabe23.
Suddenly I felt like an old programming language,
once heavily used, but now obsolete,
like C++, or worse yet, C.

  

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