Wednesday, October 5, 2011

3WW: Eject, Impact, Render

On Our Fortieth Anniversary

The old VCR tape
is stuck
in the machine.

If I press play
it growls at me.
If I hit eject

nothing happens.
The impact of this
is slight

since I rarely watch
movies.
But, just knowing

about it
is driving me nuts.
I guess

it's time to surrender
and buy
a new DVD player.

7 comments:

Rinkly Rimes said...

I looked for 'render' and there it was!

Laurie Kolp said...

You'll be glad you did.

Jae Rose said...

How quickly technology moves on..I love this tender nod to the video..they were chunky and comforting..Jae

Sheilagh Lee said...

Happy Anniversary.I still use my VCR rarely but I do and have mt DVD player as well.

andy sewina said...

Love the way you got render into this piece.

btw, what will you do with all those old tapes?

NaiSaiKu Time

gautami tripathy said...

I am yet to succumb!

jumpstart

Anonymous said...

You must have peeped last night.

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