There is a world of other programs Bob,
if you use them, your math poems
won't look like they were done by a five year old
using an Atari 5200 in the mid eighties.

I doubt Karl K. asked people how to adjust his typewriter
in the seventies to create his layering of type
in perfect lines for shapes.

Kamau Brathwaite's use of apple computers
wouldn't have been helped by asking Steve Jobs
batches of technicalities.

I played with programs for months
until they did what I wanted. I won't gladhand you,
especially when it comes to
what I perceive as pure laziness.

There is the book that came in the box
be it a selectrix, smith carona, iphone
but no amount of instruction will save you--
its in the box--

Be in and of the box and that's what you'll be.

Unless you come up with a brilliant idea
in combination with a reason, effect, new
methodology for the old technology.

Instead of being so explanation "orient" ed
(hee, hee)
why not raise your results to the same level?

How can you justify not learning the tools used?


Be well

David Baratier, Editor