{"id":6159,"date":"2010-01-23T04:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-beat-poet-and-his-macintosh-poetry\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T04:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:09:02","slug":"a-beat-poet-and-his-macintosh-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/a-beat-poet-and-his-macintosh-poetry.php","title":{"rendered":"A Beat Poet and His Macintosh [Poetry]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent Apple craze<\/a> led John Markoff of the NY Times to contact Beat-era poet Gary Snyder<\/a> and ask him to pen a poem reflecting on \"the milestones of the digital age\"<\/a>. The result is a delightful read.<\/p>

You can read more about Snyder in the NY Times article<\/a> and I recommend that you do, because the man sounds even more fantastic than his poem:<\/p>

Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh<\/b><\/p>

By Gary Snyder<\/i><\/p>

Because it broods under its hood like a perched falcon,<\/p>

Because it jumps like a skittish horse and sometimes throws me,<\/p>

Because it is poky when cold,<\/p>

Because plastic is a sad, strong material that is charming to rodents,<\/p>

Because it is flighty,<\/p>

Because my mind flies into it through my fingers,<\/p>

Because it leaps forward and backward, is an endless sniffer and searcher,<\/p>

Because its keys click like hail on a boulder,<\/p>

And it winks when it goes out,<\/p>

And puts word-heaps in hoards for me, dozens of pockets of gold under boulders in streambeds, identical seedpods strong on a vine, or it stores bins of bolts;<\/p>

And I lose them and find them,<\/p>

Because whole worlds of writing can be boldly laid out and then highlighted and vanish in a flash at \"delete,\" so it teaches of impermanence and pain;<\/p>

And because my computer and me are both brief in this world, both foolish, and we have earthly fates,<\/p>

Because I have let it move in with me right inside the tent,<\/p>

And it goes with me out every morning;<\/p>

We fill up our baskets, get back home,<\/p>

Feel rich, relax, I throw it a scrap and it hums.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Between this poem and the old-school gadgets<\/a>, I'm getting lost in a nostalgic daze today. And absolutely loving it. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>

Picture by blakespot<\/a><\/i><\/p>

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