Not these plastic electronic contraptions
but a vintage 1928 NCR bronze job
Mechanical, punch down a key and up pops a no sale
but for me those those little no sale signs come up with a woman's face.
The first one I remember falling for was the Jewess in Ivanhoe, then Zooey in the salinger novel
than Sylvia
Anne Sexton so beautiful intelligence in that face
today up popped a new face
I should have worn a welder's face mask
to protect me from the light
her face burned a hole into my retina
an after image that won't go away
like staring at the sun too long
unedited unread spontaneous gibberish
depending on how bad it reads I may have to do a hell of lot of editing.
I am like the bear in the Pogo comic strip, some days I have aphasia, I can write but not read
