Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Hats Off to the Jumping Cursor

[What you do when your jumping cursor keeps disappearing, inserting, reappearing, excising, and just plain messing with your attempts at creativity [jump to line above - move back - sigh - jump back to middle of sentence, move back, sigh again] via the magic keyboard -- what do you do after you've read every [jump again, come back again] online fix to no avail -- well, if you're a true glutton for punishment, you write a ditty just for fun because that's just the kind of crazy you are.  "Help!" she cried into the ether.  The ether did not respond. [jump again.  sigh again.]]

[and then there]
is this

I am jumping

will you jump back
you cursed
jumping not pre-
to anything cursor
you?

Well, this seems better
wish folks knew what
they w

oops
spoke too soon
jumped we did
up 5 lines
over 4 characters
and made some new
nonsense
no random
would-be Shakespeare
would-be writing
monkey could ever
come up with
trust me on that
she ranted

better
perhaps
but not
right
not
fixed
not

good
let alone
that far
country
we call
best

damn
cursor

seems
superfluous
to damn
the already-cursed,
doesn’t
it?




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