The Writing Machine

My brother called me THE WRITING MACHINE. That's basically what I do now and then. After 2,800 plus poems uploaded to the poemhunter website, I think many would agree with him now. The point is that there was a time I didn't have a typewriter or a computer and a printer. So I simply had to write instead of type. Later on… and I got a typewriter that I felt comfortable with and I just kept on struggling with it, yet getting better as time passed by. Later on… I got a Commodore 64 toy computer and learnt its BASIC commands and created a writing program for whatever I could write. Later on… I got a 9-pin dot matrix printer. Later on… some Commodore 64 Office Software. Later on… I got some computer and printer access at the College until I finally got my own Windows 95 computer. I've been forced to upgrade since then and frankly, there's no profit in being a writer or a poet. But I still write because I AM THE WRITING MACHINE! Denis Martindale April 2020.