Updating Stone Age

It has taken an age to get to a point where 

I can even see this damn text, but then it’s 

a consequence of being left in th’ dark too 

long; there’s no substitute to one’s beastly 

old adage actually outdating itself, & that’s 

not as difficult as you’d imagine - so here I 

am, back in Stone Age again - or it seems 

uncomfortably so where using the old MS 

Word program even acts a curmudgeon to 

my way of thinking, or am I on that wicked 

tangent to th’ meaning of progress and it’s 

contingent peculiarities - especially since 

I effectively grew up on Word; but, let’s be 

martyrs in my defence, these days you’ve 

reason to use th’ most efficient technology; 

it doesn’t mean ‘most common and readily 

available’ unless the best is all 2bit to such 

an excess its really a different vocabulary 

But the truth is - I like to lie down to write - 

and creativity’s comfort comes at a price a 

23in screen on an iMac won’t pay homage 

to, so a laptop’s needed; sadly mine drank 

some spilled wine & needs repair - so the 

ancient Dell’s cranked up t’ wheeze again 

And there you have it; learning how t’ bide 

with the urge to write meant discernment’s 

traded second seed to practicality - tho’ in 

the event I’m back at the desk completing 

what I certainly started quite comfortably - 

all while updating the Stone Age again … 

© 23 January 2017, I. D. Carswell