Typist Poems - Poems about Typist

UP THE LADDER

...Not a Ladder step up
Typewriting keyboard set up
Hands on the keys
Typing letter after letter
Accuracy that matters
Speed will come
Practice makes perfect
Afterwhile, you will become a typing ...

fossils

...In a lattice-lit dorm room sits a writer.
A discarded chemistry book lies beside her.
because ideas are hitting off her, like a collider.

Why does writing make her feel alive-er?
Cause it helps...

The Typist

...A former life.
I am there, a sort of poet in 1920.

My typewriter
speaks a thousand words of English,
if you peck at it with a thousand fingers.
I need help.

I have hired a woman,
a lady fr...

Valentine Typist

...Valentine typist with the pretty smile.
Pecking out letters with a ick dick mick bick.
Boys are lined up to see you for a country mile.
You act like you don’t see them.  You are totally slick....

Please Interview Our New Typist

...I was asked to interview my husband's potential secretary.
Reluctant I was, but I got dressed and did it.
Using his office and his chair.
It was much too cumbersome for me.
I asked the third ques...

Wrong Type

...I feel like writing silly tales
About a typist who had long manicured nails
She tapped the typewriter so slow
Until her boss told her she had to go
To employ her was beyond the pale...

Working Class

...I.	Daybreak

what glint of morning
is this where the rusty bloom of chain link fences
cuts the turf of rowhouses

the weeds still talk with the legs
of crickets as the post-dawn moon
fades li...

Frustration

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Frustration          



Although I am not a typist, I continue,
like an addict!
Beating myself with long poetry,
Causing me untold hours of no sleep.
Endless tears come with 'no com...

The Typist

...A world, reading into your mind
You want answers, solstice you may find
You got the image, the entire world all laid out
And for a moment your escape is made
A broom to sweep away your doubts
Yo...

I Am Think Typing

...Have you ever had the best ……… of the worst of the most ……….ordinary of the kindest …….. of days?
I am think-typing, so this is starting to annoy me.
What?
Have you ever had the ghost of …… a pers...

Where Were You In the Seventies

...Early 70's suffered from post puberty traumatic stress
running to the school bus stop my belongings a mess
at times missing the bus and walking to school
enjoying my time alone and the suburban vi...

Carpets Versus Ledges Versus Houses

...Carpet spoke. "It is only Tuesday and already I am covered in pieces and all that straw and occasional crisp. I have no mouth. I cannot possibly devour it. Where are my friends the hoovering Harriet ...

The Woman of Ice

...There was once a woman— not of vice,
Nice, she’d warm lonely beds for a price;
A poet hired her once...
He says, not for romance,
Get inspired, and no thanks, that'd suffice. 
Poets pine for a m...

God Will Overlook

...God Will Overlook

For God, would you want to go to work
As maybe quite a genius or plain old clerk
Milking many cows or working in a field
Hoping to produce a very good yield.

How about bein...

The Typewrite

...___ Manual Typewriter At Work___

The keys clack aloud
As they strike the paper
The carriage lifts up
When the shift key is alter
The ping of the bell warns the typist
That she is nearing the end 
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