Ron A., that beer/real estate story is terrific. I love these little glimpses into the way this weird old world works.
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Dato in Falls Church – we all know when we must give ip a job to save our sanity. Keep looking and applying. Fall is far different in Midwest. I miss the trees changing colors bug not the snow/ice. I have 2 typewriters and found myself looking at another on eBay.
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Aka Linda Rockey ( having trouble replying before reading it)
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ABQ JVC – thanks for sharing story about your mother. So glad your dad kept you all together. Sorry you lost her so young.
I typed for a living. Took typing, shorthand, bookkeeping in high school. Worked for lawyers for 35 years and last 5 years at Mayo Clinic. Did not embrace computers and still don’t have one. My phone is challenging enough. Wrote a book years ago too.
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Hi, Catalina. Just wanted to congratulate you on appearing on Poem-a-day on poets.org. I read the poem to myself and then listened to it. I won’t pretend to have understood it all. (I even had to look up ‘jeepney’ – which shows my ignorance.) I think it’s the kind of poem that rewards the reader more upon each new reading. Your recital of it , changing speed, for instance, on ‘and the word was…’, slowing down near the bottom of the list, added drama and tension.
Leo, Thank you for reading and listening to my poem today. What more can a poet ask for? I love the article. It could be the subject of a new poem or several poems. I will respond to you further in my OTP for tomorrow — which I will write this evening.
Ron A., that beer/real estate story is terrific. I love these little glimpses into the way this weird old world works.
Dato in Falls Church – we all know when we must give ip a job to save our sanity. Keep looking and applying. Fall is far different in Midwest. I miss the trees changing colors bug not the snow/ice. I have 2 typewriters and found myself looking at another on eBay.
Aka Linda Rockey ( having trouble replying before reading it)
ABQ JVC – thanks for sharing story about your mother. So glad your dad kept you all together. Sorry you lost her so young.
I typed for a living. Took typing, shorthand, bookkeeping in high school. Worked for lawyers for 35 years and last 5 years at Mayo Clinic. Did not embrace computers and still don’t have one. My phone is challenging enough. Wrote a book years ago too.
Hi, Catalina. Just wanted to congratulate you on appearing on Poem-a-day on poets.org. I read the poem to myself and then listened to it. I won’t pretend to have understood it all. (I even had to look up ‘jeepney’ – which shows my ignorance.) I think it’s the kind of poem that rewards the reader more upon each new reading. Your recital of it , changing speed, for instance, on ‘and the word was…’, slowing down near the bottom of the list, added drama and tension.
On a lighter but related note I’m reminded of the true story of the last two fluent speakers of a language who live half a kilometre apart – but won’t talk to each other! https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/18/last-two-speakers-of-dying-language-refuse-to-talk-to-each-other/
Leo, Thank you for reading and listening to my poem today. What more can a poet ask for? I love the article. It could be the subject of a new poem or several poems. I will respond to you further in my OTP for tomorrow — which I will write this evening.
Catalina, I wondered what had become of them since that story is from 2011. Turns out they made it up in 2014, or is it just a long advert for Vodafone? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2632996/Separated-common-language-no-Last-two-speakers-dying-tongue-decades-long-feud-help-bring-brink-extinction.html
I agree it’s a great idea for a poem, or several poems, but no way am I advertising for Vodafone!