For something a bit different.

9-10-09
There’s not many things from the past
we should hold onto and never let go,
But we’ve got to grasp this with all our hands,
We’ve got to hold this fast – preserve language
and art, the way it’s meant to be.
I know all this new technology is convenient
but art is not about convenience.

Not with these electronic little shopping lists
and the little chimes they make upon communicating,
Communication is more than just “aw, I luv u 2, c u then’,
now just how artistic is that? Now just how sick
is that to the lovers of the language?

Even drawing is done on touch-screen devices
and what ever happened to the pencil in the hand
which is just so much more true, personal and intimate,
(she says, as she types this on a screen herself)
maybe we are just scared of honesty?

It’s so much easier to lie when you don’t have an eye
to look into but just a bright screen to tell all your lies to
and there’s so little connection to the final addressee,
It’s nothing like a pen to a page, a stamp to a tongue,
an envelope that travels the world to doorsteps,
And when you read that slanted writing you can tell
just how the other person was feeling, and the holes
made in the page from anger make you worry more than a
“I’m so p’d off, man”, oh, how artistic, oh, how meaningless.

There aren’t many things from the past
we should hold onto and never let go,
But I don’t want to see the day the kids question
“oh, what is a … pen? You mean you used to write
directly onto the paper?” ‘
Tragedy and let’s just hold onto the language,
onto the tools of writing and onto art.