Windows is Shutting Down
by Clive James
Windows is shutting down, and grammar are
On their last leg. So what am we to do?
A letter of complaint go just so far,
Proving the only one in step are you.
Better, perhaps, to simply let it goes.
A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad
Before they gets to where you doesnt knows
The meaning what it must be meant to had.
The meteor have hit. Extinction spread,
But evolution do not stop for that.
A mutant languages rise from the dead
And all them rules is suddenly old hat.
Too bad for we, us what has had so long
The best seat from the only game in town.
But there it am, and whom can say its wrong?
Those are the break. Windows is shutting down.
"Windows Is Shutting Down" by Clive James from Opal Sunset: Selected poems, 1958–2008. © W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
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Gee, too bad Windows didn't shut down BEFORE he wrote that. Was this by any chance written by that guy that posted on Jen's blog???
ReplyDeleteNope. If you go to his site you'll see he claims to be dyslexic.
ReplyDeleteI'm like "U R sooooo funny", BFF." And eight6753oh9 is like omg, wtf. C U l8er. lol
ReplyDeletehahahahah Jen
ReplyDeleteCheryl, that's great! I love reading stuff like that. It's like that letter that duplicates the last word in every sentence, or the one without vowels? SUPER!
Tnx Bennett LOL!
ReplyDeleteKat, it is amazing how much stuff you can leave out of a word or sentence and it will still make sense.
Yah Cheryl, that kind of activity puts into perspective how hard it is for a person with a true learning disability to make it through any given day... thinking about that, and then how hard they must have to work to cover up their struggles in order to appear "normal" (<--- hate that word!) to their peers, y'know?
ReplyDeleteHere's my contribution to this conversation...and yes, I could read it just fine:
ReplyDeleteif yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
Um...Jen are you ok after reading that? Yeah the guy on my page made it difficult to read his comment.
ReplyDeleteJen ...Are you following me?? We posted at the same time here...lol
Dang I am so going to bed.
ReplyDeleteonly 55 out of 100 people can read that? That's weird to me... I wonder what types of thinkers are or are not able to process that type of writing. Y'know? Left brain/right brain... Auditory sequential ... Visual spatial... Fascinating ... On iPhone tho ;) g'nite!
ReplyDeleteI just love people... we are so much more amazing than we think we are. I'm not saying we're "good" or "bad" - just amazing. And sometimes lost in the maze, too.
ReplyDeleteYes, Jen, I am blog-stalking you. Bwah ha ha!!!!! lol
ReplyDeleteIf only 55 of 100 could read it, but it basically says later that the study shows that the mind will recognize the patterns and thus insert the proper word (as long as the first and last letter are correct) then why can't 100 out of 100 read it? Or maybe a higher amount than 55? I don't think there are *that* many people who have learning issues, are there?
ReplyDeleteThere is a trick to reading it. You just relax your focus and let the shape of the words come through.
ReplyDeleteI think it helps that the words are not isolated, but in context.
ReplyDeleteNot sure when you will update, but wanted to wish you a happy birthday today. I love you. D.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dorene. I love you too.
ReplyDeleteI love this poem!!
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