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Saturday, June 6, 2026

Typewriter, Telephone, Dictionary, Thesaurus - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Typewriter, Telephone, Dictionary, Thesaurus

 

 

The typewriter is holy

 

(okay, Ginsberg got that right, at least)

 

 

Over the years a series of corded telephones

Stood to their duty next to an Underwood

That’s now stowed away in a closet somewhere

The dictionary and thesaurus are retired

 

Over the years a series of wordy battles

Have been fought over this Polonian plain:

Thesis and antithesis to synthesis

Theses, structures and sources, papers and poems

 

Over the years

 

A little glowing machine now centers my desk

But verse and prose, and you and I, are forever