Monday, 5 October 2015 11:55 pm
Poetry Week, Part 3
On Monday, a co-worker said after greeting,
“You planning to come to the afternoon meeting?”
—Except that she really said something quite jarring:
“You palming to vote to the anteroom marring?”
I asked her to clarify just what she meant,
But her clarification was equally bent:
“You loaning to time to the fattening mowing?”
I didn’t like where this discussion was going.
She tried it once more with “You blabbing to cow
To the safranin narrating?” Up until now,
I suspected she’d suffered a blow to the head,
But I finally followed the clues where they led.
I told her to open her settings for language:
I thought a default was producing her anguish.
It was, and she soon had the feature unchecked.
No more would she trip up on autocorrect.
“You planning to come to the afternoon meeting?”
—Except that she really said something quite jarring:
“You palming to vote to the anteroom marring?”
I asked her to clarify just what she meant,
But her clarification was equally bent:
“You loaning to time to the fattening mowing?”
I didn’t like where this discussion was going.
She tried it once more with “You blabbing to cow
To the safranin narrating?” Up until now,
I suspected she’d suffered a blow to the head,
But I finally followed the clues where they led.
I told her to open her settings for language:
I thought a default was producing her anguish.
It was, and she soon had the feature unchecked.
No more would she trip up on autocorrect.