Long Low tech Poems

Let me be Frank.

I pulled up to the Stork Club in a bright Red Coupe Deville. I must admit I felt a bit of pride as I tossed the bell hop the keys. I said...

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50 years ago, life was lived                             ...

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Oh, For The Simpler Times
Y2K is coming
Written: by  Tom Wright
2000 

I eagerly watch,
as darkness gives way to dawn;
as preening birds
begin to stir.
I sip hot coffee, 
stretch and yawn,
and lament that things
aren't as they were.

The...

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One Enduring Stove
A tribute to a major appliance

I am tough, hard working, good looking, and blend well with my neighbors.
I come in various colors with different compartments and choices in sizes
I am not perfect, because...

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White Devil
You're a white man, whiter than white. You work for The Firm. Your rep is brighter than light. You see the world in black and white. You live in the white part; the good...

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Midnight Madness (Ah! Earth Hour,2012)


All this low tech by candle light
Doesn't do much for my eyesight,
But, pulled the breaker at midnight
Having set up picnic delights.
Marshmellows, grahams, choc'late--Right!
Roasting them o're candle's light.
Toasty charred outsides black as...

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Dr. Seuss-style-Mister Obama Please Tax The Rich Man!


Mister Obama please tax the rich man!
The cost's are up.
The pay is down.
Tax.
TAX!
All over town.
There is tax on GAS!
There is tax on tan.
Mister Obama please tax the rich...

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-------------------HI TECH  FOOLS---------------


We are all High Tech Fools
    Mother Earth’s Destruction Tools ………..[1]

We do chat on internets
   & Forget talking with beloved parents ……………[2]

An invention a day keeps technocrats...

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Technology that is useful,
Is built by hands that are purposeful.
Technology that is helpful,
Is designed by the insightful.

Technology can still be mastered,
If enough of us don't get plastered.

Technology is a tool, that has more blades than...

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We should teach the chimpanzees to read
the names of certain things. Objects like tools 
for instance
then label the tools: hammer, saw, axe,
screwdriver etcetera, then screws and nails.

Teach them just enough words to know
a pickaxe from...

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Saving memories about Mom
(Rub Boards, Bluing & Homemade Lye Soap)
By: Tom Wright
1/2/02

My half century old recollections
of a #2 galvanized tub,
When in use 
it covered all four burners on the fire.
With homemade lye soap and a...

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When I first started working
(And things were low-tech),
Each payday I'd march
To the bank with my check.

I'd sign it and wait for
The teller to take it,
Depositing some
Just as soon as I'd make it.

I'd glance in my...

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I was not with him when he died
Though he was not alone
His friends were riding right beside,
Their flesh torn from the bone.

Fuel oil and some fertilizer
Plus a dollar blasting cap
One enormous atomizer
One gigantic thunderclap

Low tech...

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Chasing Shadows
By: Miracle Man
October 27, 2020

Shadows from the passing clouds overhead,
some were fluffy while some appeared as thread.
Always seeming to scurry once on the ground,
only briefly would they pause and made no sound.

When as a...

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Inside me I see
Nothing perfect, nothing great
Just a cog set in place 
To turn at will and make haste

Influenced by the noisy machines 
That shine a light glisten and gleam 
They make us into zombie...

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