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Joyce Johnson
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0 posted 2001-03-22 06:31 PM


In Shakespeare's day there is no doubt,
There were fewer poets, they were weeded out;
For few of them had a will like Will,
To write their thoughts with ink and quill.

With computers at our beck and call,
We can type it out, can say it all
And add some more another day,
Even though we don't have much to say.

How many plays would he have written
With a word processor to help him write them?
It's something we will never know;
Because he lived so long ago.

His years were only fifty-two.
That's not very long in which to do
All those famous plays, but with no fuss,
He wrote those wonderful words for us.

To think he wrote them all by pen
And just like other famous men
Of yesteryear, he didn't shrink
From writing everything in ink.

So listen now ye men of prose,
Do ye think ye could have written those;
If ye only had a pen to do it;
No processor to help ye through it?

If so, you Are far braver than I.
The truth is that I wouldn't try
To write long verse for posterity,
If limited by such austerity.


By Joyce 1999

[This message has been edited by Joyce Johnson (edited 03-22-2001).]

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1 posted 2001-03-22 06:43 PM


Shakespeare, along with the other great writers of the past, had to overome more than writer's block to write the beautiful things that they did. The classics will live on forever because of this. Thank you for reminding us.

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel."-Machiavelli

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