Gary Snyder - Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer

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Why I Take Good Care Of My Macintosh Computer

Because it broods under it's hood like a perched falcon
Because it jumps like a skittish horse: and sometimes throws me
Because it is pokey when cold
Because plastic is a sad, strong material: that is charming to rodents
Because it is flighty
Because my mind flies into it through my fingers
Because it leaps forward and backward: is an endless sniffer and searcher,
Because its keys click like hail on a rock
& it winks when it goes out,
& 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;
And I lose them and find them,
Because whole worlds of writing can be boldly layed out
and then highlighted, & vanished in a flash at: "delete" so it teaches; of impermanence and pain;
& because my computer and me are both brief: in this world, both foolish, and we have earthly fates,
Because I have let it move in with me: right inside the tent
And it goes with me out every morning
We fill up our baskets, get back home,
Feel rich, relax, I throw it a scrap and it hums.

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