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Old Typewriter Outdated, antique or classic?

I found you at the back of the wardrobe

I wiped the dust off your buttons and top

I hoped to revive you, put next to my laptop

I looked at you, waiting if you’re ready or not.

 

Your tape was dried-out, you used to tell the stories -

And probably had even your own plot

The stories of love, fears and worries

Before you’d become outdated and old.

 

Things of the past

Can still inspire us

Impressing more or less

Time seldom plays a trick:

After becoming useless

Things can become antique.

 

Can people too?

What do you think?

 

With getting old

If you're good enough

You can become classic.

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Written by
Poeteia
Published
Mar 19
Lines·Words
19·111
Notes

I've tried to gather my reflections on time - it definitely makes thing old, but how some of them become antique or even classic despite or due to the time.

 

And my attempt to use an old typewriter for writing collapsed in fact.

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#time#writing#old#humor
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