Bukowski is a Mac
16-bit Intel 8088 chip
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.– Charles Bukowski
Whether you like Bukowski or not, you have to appreciate that this old curmudgeonly writer was inspired new technology. In 1990, his wife gave him new Macintosh computer to replace his typewriter, and he started writing stuff like the poem above in which he totally brings the funny. More in this piece about Bukowski's tech advocacy here.
