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Nancy Chomitz

Automatic Writing

What do you get,
When cat meets keyboard?
‘lhj122222222222n%%dccccccccccccccccfccccffff’
A whole new language, I have yet to understand.
Not quite sure what she’s trying to say,
But I’ll take it.
‘.9iiiiii|{pjku}YUUUUUUUUUUUUcv 0-’
Where the cat lands on the keyboard,
Can tell you a lot about where they’re from:
Watching as they travel from letter to letter
We can see their journey:
From start to finish.
Just as the cat has done so many times before.
Through the front door and down the hallway on the right.
Then to the kitchen, just in case.
Still, it plays out on the computer screen.
“45………………….ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwfyukl”
The cat will go where it pleases,
Despite your discontent
Minor human feelings are of no concern,
When you are entitled to nine lives.
But what would the world be like,
If we could see the rest of our lives,
Typed out for the world to see?
Just, as we can track the trail of the cat across her keys?

[authentic cat walks across my keyboard]

[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2012 EDITION]