{"id":129733,"date":"2023-09-02T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129733"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:12:55","slug":"twenty-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/twenty-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been caught, a flopping fish on Stearns Pier &#8211; sunny day, trying to keep up with tech<\/p>\n<p>which smells like a mackerel on a dock in hot sun.<\/p>\n<p>This looks fishy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know it sounds like I\u2019m complaining<\/p>\n<p>knowing that hooks from the money guys are making these<\/p>\n<p>keyboard keys feel like psychic shocks as I type them\u2026ouch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Elan Zuckerberg Musky smells are coming from Silicon Valley<\/p>\n<p>but the gourmet food being offered tastes like sauerkraut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ebeneezer Tech has got hot eyes for your wife<\/p>\n<p>on this raging river of computerdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>money motivated mongrels hiding in the keys smell like old big eyed bass<\/p>\n<p>in the fridge and feel like mushy potatoes full of shards of glass<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But maybe tech is its own flopping fish that should try to keep up with me<\/p>\n<p>perhaps I should let tech be Darth Vader take over from my big baby<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I am fed constant deceit on computers and the world would be much better without them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a good ol\u2019 Apple II GS computer is an apple of my eye<\/p>\n<p>She and I can figure it all out and merge to become Harv the computer whiz<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>flowery techno daisy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really easy to figure all this stuff out if I surrender to my inner Yoda<\/p>\n<p>just say oy veh which amazingly slays the dragon that heats these keyboard squares<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but that dragon speaks in tongues that somehow make sense<\/p>\n<p>to the masses who oddly speak the same language<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While all l I see on my computer screen are dollar signs that twist and turn like a 300 pound contortionist trying to wiggle out of a phone booth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty &nbsp; I\u2019ve been caught, a flopping fish on Stearns Pier &#8211; sunny day, trying to keep up with tech which smells like a mackerel on a dock in hot sun. This looks fishy &nbsp; I know it sounds like I\u2019m complaining knowing that hooks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129742,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129733\/revisions\/129742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}