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This year, I set myself the foolish task of trying to write something every day, and what you see here is the result. None of this is finished, polished, or in any way good. It's usually a few lines at the end of the day when I'm tired, my head's broken, and this nonsense spills out of it onto the page. Feel free to comment away, and if you think anything has any potential then let me know and I might have a go at working on it further.

But hang on, where's the first month? You've ripped us off! I hear you say... Well, yes. I have been writing since the beginning of January, but it's taken me a while to get the blog up, so everything here is a month old.

Thursday, 17 November 2016

First touch of silicon

The machine hums to life
And with a boom-beep
Announces its readiness,
Flashing its cursor.
This is it: a black screen, a glowing prompt.
Daring interaction, but reassuringly dumb.
I press a key and the letter instantly appears.
I press another and another,
Jam my hand down on the keyboard
Producing strings of gibberish.
This is a mechanical mirror for all my words and non-words,
Reflecting genius and idiocy alike.
Imagine the worlds that can be wrought,
Imagine the fusion of mechanical and human brains.
I hit Return to begin my Ovidic opus.
"Syntax error."

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