Checking each link in the chain
it would be easier with a pen;
The click clack of typos;
I hope that no one knows
my editor coughed again.
Categories:
typos, emotions, humor, poetry, writing,
Form: Limerick
Let’s
admit
that it’s true
we can deny
but it goes nowhere
and leads us back to truth
typos are a part of life
those misspelled words by accident
hound and haunt us to our dying days
we only hope to find absolution
Categories:
typos, life,
Form: Etheree
We got tangled up in bed
Our legs, hands, fingers, bodies
Unnaturally twisted, intertwined
All crazy angles…
Why? Because of Kama Sutra typos!
Categories:
typos, relationship, satire, sensual,
Form: Concrete
The Consequences of Typos
By Elton Camp
A typo can be far from a minor thing
Discredit and rejection it can bring
See what such errors might have meant
And if these would have gone to print
This book from Papa wouldn’t be
With the title, “Old Man and the See”
Faulkner’s book would we be spying
If it was sent out, “As I lay Lying?”
If typed, “Beast of Eden,” we would expect
Rejection and “Oh heck!” from Steinbeck
“The Little Boxes” would never do
Lillian Hellman the results would rue
If called, “Look Homeward Angle,”
Wolfe, a publisher would never wrangle
If the typo was “Of Lice and Men,”
Steinbeck badly disappointed again
If called “The Ramen” by Edgar Poe
The printing house would’ve said “No”
If a publisher a writer does need
It pay to very carefully proofread
Categories:
typos, humor,
Form: Rhyme
has your mind ever gotten faster than your writ it sounding so good
Categories:
typos, computer, funny, internet, writing,
Form: Senryu
Those Pesky Typos
By Elton Camp
Only a second of inattention does it take
To make a funny or serious typing mistake
In English, a single letter or even a space
Can result in embarrassment or disgrace
A sign was painted on a therapist door
As “the rapist,” an error he did abhor
“Pubic” for “public” we will often spy
Laughter stifling we needn’t even try
Meg wanted liposuction on her hips
But extra fullness added to her lips
However, after the adjustments were made,
By the result, she felt she’d been betrayed
Yet, the cause was a big typing slip
A wrong keying of “lip” and “hip”
The surgical order brought the doc despair
For the tragic mistakes were right there
Categories:
typos, humor,
Form: Rhyme
While checking out a website
Where my poem appeared in print,
I had to do a double-take,
My scrunched up eyes a’squint.
For there before me were my words,
Which everyone could see,
But one phosphorescent typo
Sat there looking back at me.
I’d read it over, checked it twice,
Like Santa’s song suggested;
But somehow I’d mistyped a word
And nobody’d protested.
I made a fast correction
And removed the extra letter.
As soon as I was done, I felt
Miraculously better.
Until a different poem of mine
My temper did ignite,
For a single noun was used
When only plural would be right.
Just a measly “s” was missing
But it set me in a tizzy,
For a typo is a message
That your mind is just too busy.
Once again, it was amended
So I really should stop fumin’
‘Cause, to paraphrase the Bard,
To make a typo’s only human!
Categories:
typos, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Why It Is So Hard to Find Typos
By Elton Camp
The huamn brian is an amaizng deivce
You can raed tihs wihtuot thniknig twcie
For as long as first & last letters are there
About order of the rest, brain doesn’t care
The mind gets conetxutal cleus as it geos
So even garbled words it most easily knows
So our own mistakes are very hard to find
Beaucse we see tehm rihgt in our mind
So about typos in writes, don’t be fuming
Not to fnid tehm is jsut only huamn
But my computer, this poem really upset
Wehn corrcetnig tehse errros I woludn’t let
Categories:
typos, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme