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The Laptop People Are Angry
by Gregory Farnum

The Laptop People Are Angry


The laptop people are angry:

little men in passé outfits

keep scrambling around their keyboards

there’s one now!

Chase ‘em away and they return

when you rise for a break,

typing ///////…/////// at the end of

your memo, tiny invisible voices

yelling "dotcom! dotcom!"

as you clear it away

and laughing to beat the band,

or else they’ll type (with their feet?)

something lame like "Teddy Bears on Parade"

in the body of your e-mail.

This fall a public-private consortium

is scheduled to begin addressing the issue.

It’s about time. Simultaneously,

a nationwide marketing campaign

is planned to increase awareness –

high-priced creative and marquee placement.

Pardon me for a moment while I take this call…

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Farewell to the Dustball People


The little people have been made littler,

enter their modest houses and you’ll find no one there.

Look closer and you’ll see them riding on dustballs

that emerge from the corners and skirt the walls,

but who does?

Only the full-size replicas of their former existence

are noticed,

things like sports trophies, obsolete VCRs

and quaint refrigerator magnets.

And photos of course,

many photos.

Passtimes and poses,

poses and passtimes,

marriages and babies

and "significant events."

Grab some! They’re awkward and funny

but sweet in a way,

and very collectible.

But oh, those clothes!

 

Anno Domini 2000


How many operating systems

can fit on the head of a pin?

Let’s find out!

 

In the Wake of the Demonstrations


Electrochemical cybernetic weapons costumes

-- "It’s Officer Muldoon!"

From above

(or perhaps inside our heads)

a voice says "Thank you for your

professionalism."

 

Email: gfarnum@french-rogers.com

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