Charles Bukowski

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Even los van alle digitale toestanden deel ik graag het gedicht ’16 bit Intel 8088 chip’ van Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) hier met jullie. Want ondanks alle bits en bytes waait de wind nog steeds over de savanne en schreef Bukowski het liefste gedichten op zijn typemachine. Het gedicht verscheen in zijn bundel ‘The last Night of the Earth Poems’ uit 1992.

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16 bit Intel 8088 chip

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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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