Exchanging my days of quill and ink, <br />To a computer is a must I think, <br />The favourite of the current age, <br />Is just the thing I need, I guage. <br /> <br />A modem, printer and scanner will do, <br />A camera, mouse and speakers too, <br />With all these marvellous machines, <br />Life would be effortless, it seems. <br /> <br />Well.....Switching on is bad enough, <br />One needs to be a computer buff, <br />It's questions, questions, all the way, <br />Call 'help' they say, but 'help' won't play. <br /> <br />It takes months to learn all the technical moves, <br />Ages to slot things within the right grooves, <br />Once you've accomplished a single great feat, <br />Remembering how you got there, in the first place, is no treat. <br /> <br />My memory is not as good as this robot, <br />In fact it makes me look a very real 'dull clot', <br />One false move and everything becomes a disaster, <br />However can one end up feeling the master. <br /> <br />I never had problems with my old quill and ink, <br />Whatever we wrote, we relied on our 'quink', * <br />Everything stable, everything calm, <br />Everything tackled with no kind of alarm. <br /> <br />No stress, no anger, no frustration, no curses, <br />One simple poised instrument doing the 'verses', <br />My pen who never argued with me, <br />Would do the job handsomely for no extra fee. <br /> <br />Is this machine a friend or a foe, <br />I don't think I will ever know, <br />But I won't give in though, to it's power, <br />I won't be bullied and I won't cower. <br /> <br />I will achieve and I'll win the day, <br />A computer 'buff' is here to stay, <br />But my quill and my ink stay by my side, <br />In case on my robot my way is 'denied'. <br /> <br />Ernestine Northover<br /><br />Ernestine Northover<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tackling-my-computer/
