Leaving For Trip, Packed Light
Pearl Promises To Take Good Care of It.
Leaving For A Trip, Packed Light
Goodbye Husband.
Goodbye Dog.
Goodbye Computer.
(What!? Computer!?)
Long hug, Hubby.
Quick kiss, Pup.
(What!? Computer!?)
Internal digits finger
charging cord, covet
chromish cover,
as brain like a conjoined twin about
to be cut cries
nooooooooooo!
clinging to its external memory–all those little rows
of iPhotos, white blocks of docs–
with the hardest of
drives–
Hubby hugs again, gently.
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I leave tomorrow for a trip to India, but I left my house a couple of days ago on a rather circuitous way to the airport (i.e. stopping to work like mad in my office in NYC.) I decided, for lots and lots of good reasons, not to bring my laptop with me on the trip. Agh.
(PS Before anyone feels too sorry for me, I am lucky enough to have an IPad. It is a marvelous device, but a bit difficult for those, like me, whose vision is faulty. I am referring here to both inner vision, as well as the external kind.) (Ha.)
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April 3, 2013 at 1:02 pm
Have a wonderful trip! India is on my (quite lengthy) bucket list. And I don’t believe you need worry about your inner vision.
April 3, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Thanks so much. k.
April 3, 2013 at 1:27 pm
smiles…i find it hard to leave my laptop behind…smiles..but looks like pearl will take good care of it..smiles…have fun on the trip karin…enjoy and greetings to your daughter
April 3, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Thanks so much, Claudia. k.
April 3, 2013 at 3:00 pm
O brave soul, voyager into the unknown, beyond the laptop (but at least you get to keep the lap) and boldly going where so few of us would be able to go! I think it will be very freeing, k. And I bet your eyes will gradually adjust to their new taskmaster. Have a wonderful, mind-expanding(hopefully not lap-expanding but o well) trip.
April 3, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Ha. Thanks. In my experience, India is not usually lap expanding! But we’ll see.k.
April 3, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Bon Voyage — and happy times with daughter (right?).
Just recently reading about prosody (see my little diagram), I learned of alliteration as a prominent prosodic element in Germanic and Old English poetry. And your poem was pleasantly packed with it.
नमस्ते
April 3, 2013 at 9:13 pm
Thanks, Sabio. Yes I will be visiting one of my daughters. K.
April 3, 2013 at 8:13 pm
Travel safe–and enjoy!
April 3, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Thanks so much, Karin
April 3, 2013 at 8:13 pm
You are lined-up for a wonderful, memorable trip.
Glad you went w/ the IPad and left the laptop behind.
A bit envious of your trip and mostly very, very excited for you.
I would love to read of your travels when you get a moment.
Bon Voyage. Namaste.
April 3, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Thanks so much, Jane. Good luck with your April poetry. K.
April 3, 2013 at 10:39 pm
travel light k…enjoy yourself…enjoy time away…i would love to visit india at some point…so will pearl be writing in your absence? smiles.
April 4, 2013 at 12:17 am
Ha! So true to life … Have a good trip …
April 4, 2013 at 3:26 pm
I often travel sans computer, so can totally relate. That anxiety is usually abated by lots of photography!
April 4, 2013 at 11:02 pm
See you when you return, Karin. Have a wonderful time.
Pamela