Ted's Typewriter
by Dave Payne, Sr.
My voice is silent.
I've nothing to live for but a thirty-year-old Royal mo. no. 440
Manual typewriter, yellowed sheets of paper and black gunpowder.
Alone in my cabin,
I transfer feelings onto a sheet of paper,
A melting pot of letters, mixed up, jumbled across the page.
My typewriter hears- the words I do not say.
It knows- my fears, my frustrations.
It has typed for the world- my Manifesto
And still they laugh at it.
They laugh at me.
And I, the man in the hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses,
Laugh back.
Originally appeared in Influx.
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Last edited 12/28/01