Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Windows is Shutting Down

A clever poem read on The Writer's Almanac on NPR that goes along quite well with my post about semiotics, linguistics and New Media (See "Beginning Stages of My Autobiography" entry).

Windows is Shutting Down.

by Clive James

Windows is shutting down, and grammar are
On their last leg. So what am we to do?
A letter of complaint go just so far,
Proving the only one in step are you.

Better, perhaps, to simply let it goes.
A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad
Before they gets to where you doesnt knows
The meaning what it must be meant to had.

The meteor have hit. Extinction spread,
But evolution do not stop for that.
A mutant languages rise from the dead
And all them rules is suddenly old hat.

Too bad for we, us what has had so long
The best seat from the only game in town.
But there it am, and whom can say its wrong?
Those are the break. Windows is shutting down.

3 comments:

Princess Leah said...

Too seldom is it asked: "Is our children learning?".

William Wren said...

the title alone says a lot

Diana Marie said...

you know, you're really misunderestimating our culture, kathErine.

heh.