16-bit Intel 8088 chip (Charles Bukowski, 1985)

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens. 

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Meanwhile, elsewhere...

"Gore Vidal has died: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." At The New York Review of Books, Charles Simic reflects on Aurora. The Atlantic reports on one poet worrying about information overload in 1821. The Poetry Foundation has announced the long list for the Ruth Lilly Fellowships. Suicide Girls interviews Anne Carson. And Gore Vidal has died."

Source: The Boston Review

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