Thanks to the Computer
you write a bad poem and you just press the "delete" key and watch the lines vanish as if they had never been, no ripping pages out of the typer, balling them up and tossing them into the wastebasket.
the older I get the more I delete. I mean, if I see nothing in a work, what will the reader see?
and the computer screen is a tough judge, the words sit back and look at you, with the typewriter you don t see them until you pull out the page.
also, the keyboard on a computer is more efficient than that on the typer, with the computer the thoughts leap more quickly from your mind to your fingers, to the screen.
is this boring? probably.
but I won t delete it because it isn t boring me.
I am in love with THIS MACHINE
see what it can do
now let s get back to work.
Charles Bukowski