My techno-dream: to dictate my blogs extemporaneously via wireless web and microphone…while strolling through a cemetery, rolling down the road,  or raving mad to live, to breathe, to shine in a bar or on the surface of Mars.   I’ve got the rudimentary technology: satellite uplink from my laptop, mic, and the latest voice recognition as a new feature in Office (Word 2002) XP.  It would be nice to have xTools take dictation, hehe!  But we have what we have.  Now is it practical  ?

 

This morning, while showering, these words came to me:

 

Awakening from a most arousing dream,

Realizing that I’m direly missing one thing:

A hard nipple.

 

I rushed from the shower to transcribe this thought verbally.  Here’s what the Word Wizard of XP thought I was saying:

 

Political gain from almost arose in green,

Realizing that empire of the missing one thing:

Of her lip will.

 

LOL.  Damn.  Back to the voice imprint module.  But wait…actually, I think I like the imperfectly transcribed stanza better!  I think what I thought was *voice dictation* is actually a *poetry translation* tool.  So I’m in business.  Here goes …*All in Green Went My Love Riding*,  by e.e. cummings:

 

All in green when my love writing

on a great wars of golden
to this overdone.

 

for the nouns crouch loads minding

they married your ran before.

 

They to behave in dappled dreams

this with sweet theatre

And the raiders the year.

 

But for renewal at Whitewater

the gruel you will sing for.

 

Here’s the *unimproved* original:

All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.

four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
the merry deer ran before.

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams
the swift sweet deer
the red rare deer.

Four red roebuck at a white water
the cruel bugle sang before.

I love Office XP—it just poetized my world!

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