Old Typewriter

This critique and acrostic poem will show readers why I chose this image for most of my writing.

Old-fashioned typing mode for the sound it made clickity-clack or something like that.

Learning to type material for others to read one page on paper at a time.

Deleting by erasing words and phrases with correcting tape.

Taking a person back to an easier time when writing was work at a somewhat slower pace.

Yearning to get typed and published on paper.

Praying the manuscript would not get lost in transit.

Expecting news about your work and getting a letter on paper.

Writing to share ideas again one page at time.

Reading a printed page of our work.

Indicating hearing a little bell telling you when at the end of a sentence or page.

Timing at a slower pace.

Editing one sheet at a time.

Reading and revising one sheet at a time.

An old typewriter is a way a writer can savor what he or she has typed on paper, as in something to hold whether one sheet or a manuscript of some kind.