Typing Against Time

We’re typing against time

It’s not a question of space

We can type till the screen goes blank

and the walls have run off to some dance

We don’t have the right amount of time

Immortality is a flawed concept

Except for Shakespeare everything will die

To Be or Not to Be will lose badly

"Not to be" will win by a landslide

We’re still sliding and sliding

We might as well enjoy the ride

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Why Do We Type? Because Shakespeare Will Never Die

We don’t write, we type

and when we write, we still need to type

We also record phrases and sentences

and we type them as well

Some type because they have something to type

something to see, something to hide

Others type because they have to type something

anything in some instances

as if typing was like loving

we have to love before we can type

as if typing was like sleeping

we have to sleep as well

not as often as loving

as if typing was like saying

we always have something to say

typists type all the time

as if typing was like writing

some type to live

others live to type

some type till they die

others type because they can’t write

Why do we type?

Because we will die

Everyone dies

Shakespeare will never die

as long as Brevity Is the Soul of Wit

is typed somewhere

even in someone’s twit

even as a slogan for a novice politician

even as we stop typing to drink some wine

I’ll have the Porto

you can have the white