Typewriter

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Typewriter

By: Noel N. Villarosa

A fresh college graduate looking for a job

To undergo trials one of which is the typing test

Handed over a text passage to pound on the keypad

Typing 40 to 50 words per minute, I needed to press

Facing a manual typewriter, rested fingers to home keys

Try to feel the small bumps on the F and J keys

Now confident, curled fingers to position strategically

Hoping to type the text reflexively

Altering the upper and lower case, pinky fingers strike shift keys

Reaching the number keys on upper level makes it fiddly

Pressing the keys very hard to swing the type-bar up

The carriage travels to the far right sluggishly

Leaving an imprint of the characters

I was whisked away by my disappointment

Never repeat same fate in front of a manual typewriter

The rhythm goes with each keystroke adapting to its component

The next day I saw a Remington typewriter

So old that typebars entangled so often

Curious to type words, always an attempter

At its clickety-clack sound, a relic of a bygone age

Posted in Poetrysoup.com

15 May 2013