A POEM by me

Pablo got me going. He's written a lot of poems about ordinary things. The most important ordinary thing right now is the computer and the connection to all you great folks on the internet but it costs me. . . .like this.



ODE to touch
by Claire Read
July 1,2006

my keyboard is on an angle
as I type
watching my hands
hands are
wise in the way of keystrokes

I close my eyes
they hurt
an attached magnefier
a great round eye
to aid my eyes
exacting a toll
making them hurt
especialy
if I duck
straining upward
inconvenient and painful
I touch type
with lots of typos.

forgiving keyboard
underlines them in red
easy to correct


my eyes still hurt.


with respect to Pablo Neruda
claire read