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Computers and Binary Codes

COMPUTERS AND BINARY CODES

Computers, computer science, and binary codes
Are a pain in the neck and other parts of the anatomy
They cause confusion and misery by the truckloads
In order to cope, one almost has to attend an academy

Computers have become a necessary evil today
They seem like a demon of sorts has been turned loose
 I know less about a binary code than I do about ballet
And for the science part of it, I simply have no use

The only reason I tolerate computers is Poetry Soup
Without it my poems could never be read
And that would make my spirits droop 
And my ego would never get fed

So I'll just sit in front of this one eyed monster
And keep writing poems that people hopefully enjoy
While at the same time I will ponder
Another method the world could employ

To simplify life, yet inform the world
Of the beauty that poetry can give
And computers, as well as smart phones be hurled
Into space to simplify the life we must live

5 October 2018 
For the contest sponsored by Brahn Bailey

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Gershon Wolf

Date: 10/7/2018 12:42:00 PM

I am with you all the way here, Curtis. What I see as ironic is that someone who would have been a file clerk or secretary back in the day is now making $125k as an analyst, for coding instructions to make machines do what men and women used to do far more efficiently. Bah! … Cannot live with these monsters, and cannot live without them. We are stuck! Best wishes, Gershon

Curtis Moorman
Date: 10/7/2018 1:04:00 PM

A pencil, paper, and a decent mind can accomplish the same results in most cases --- just not as quick. lol

James Marshall Goff

Date: 10/6/2018 6:06:00 PM

Love the sentiment, Curtis! very well constructed!

Tom Cunningham

Date: 10/6/2018 12:29:00 AM

Brilliant Curtis, we managed ok forty years ago now nothing moves unless computer says so. Good luck. Tom.

Curtis Moorman
Date: 10/6/2018 12:58:00 AM

Thank you, Tom! Yes, forty years, even fifty years past, we used typewriters (manual - not electric), pencil and paper or the blessed little ballpoint pen. We may have suffered somewhat from writers' cramp but a liniment based rub at night limited that and made it tolerable. The only thing that moved back then was the noisy neighbor across the street, and that was a blessing.

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 10/5/2018 3:21:00 AM

PoetrySoup is a GREAT reason to buy into all of this technology lingo though, right Curtis? I am ready to hurl my smart phone into space too though.

Curtis Moorman
Date: 10/5/2018 3:36:00 AM

Right, Caren, but the world has become so big that we can't know each other personally in a face-to-face friendship so we rely on technology to help us meet and greet each other. I am glad to have 'met' you. I appreciate your support.