Best Ibm Poems

This is for that certain someone who has everything.
If they take an occasional drink, this would make their bell ring.
It’s an invention that will certainly...

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We are the Indians noted for our humanness and calm nature
With no harshness in our Principles and ideals.
We are open minded, emotional and good natured
Our...

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A psychologist is a person who decided to spend a lot of money,
To recieve a piece of paper that says they know everything about me.

Sure...

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MEMORY TRIGGERED BY A PURPLE PENCIL
A reponse to Caren Krutsinger’s Pay the Purple Pencil Penalty Please

sick
in bed
not now
then

daddy
worked for
i.b.m.

simpler times
not now
but
then

to soothe
my pain
dad
brought home
a
glitzy pen

decorations
that...

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"Fatal Attraction"



The letter was typewritten
IBM Selectric, 
No final salutation
in italics
“With love”, 
but it was there nevertheless
invisible
electric
“VC”
Bleeding Bold Black 
thick cursive stroke
With knife point calculation
An arrow...

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There were things of mine in the drawers that could be thrown out,
But I kept gravitating to the things that were his.

His Public School 45...

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IBM
UBM
ICBM
On the floor....

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"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul...

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I read on my laptop today--
automation is making us dumber,
ineffective, maybe even impotent.
Perhaps it's a conspiracy by that secret
society, the computer brotherhood.
(Do you really believe...

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A dear old friend of mine of many years was retired the other day.
In many ways I'll miss my old pal more than words can...

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In the fifties life was simple
black and white you see
Elvis on Ed Sullivan
came across our used TV

Phones from Mother Bell
Rotary dial straight cords	
made way for...

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A dear old friend of mine of many years was retired the other day.
In many ways I'll miss my pal more than words can say!
Alas,...

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Smoke ‘em if you got them.
Save the bottles for return.
That hippie needs a haircut.
What the hell’s a Lady Bird?
My Christmas tree had bubble lights, 
My...

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I commenced my day, sloshing through the acid rain.
I was met by an unfamiliar harmony.
(A sound that I stopped to entertain.)

A band of fledglings sang...

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I can go farther than the bar-tailed godwit.
I have more capacity for abstract thought than the IBM Roadrunner.
In stature I’ve been compared to a redwood.
And...

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