The PC for a Poet

Dave Jones' alternative lyric to the James/Atkin song 'The Wristwatch For A Drummer'

The Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
Is the only PC for a poet
It won a Nobel
And they don't know it.

The Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
Can handle more than simple scansion
It structures stanzas, Spenser style
Tightens meters, even while
Magnifying rhythmic tension !

The Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
It's a brilliant creation
For the Age of Information

Microprogrammed nanochips
Neural networks, SIMMs and SIPs
All in pico-miniaturisation!

It started with Babbage and Ada L.
Byron produced some designs as well
The Poetic Engine would grind like hell
And greet the world in couplets

But you know what made those wheels hum ?
Coleridge spiked the oil with opium...

The Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
It's early versions were behind the Beat revolution
"Howl" was just another stage in its evolution.

Allen Ginsburg used the one they built at M.I.T.
Ferlinghetti's was hidden behind his stacks
Kerouac tried to use his on the road
And came back with "Doctor Sax".

The Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
Can be worn concealed when you go slamming

So you can wow the customers cramming
In to see all the poets jamming
Side by side, on the stage and ramming
Mordant rhymes into verses damning
Modern times with an MC hamming
Intros

It feeds you lines to help you when
The guy you slammed's bouncing back again
It'll leave them groping and lost for words
Your poems will take off and soar like birds
This PC is the one to use
You'll write like Petrarch or Willem Kloos
Who needs a Thesaurus ?

Get an Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
It's the only PC for a poet
It won a Nobel
And they don't know it.

Now the silicon platters glitter 
In the fabs and clean rooms while the steppers chatter
Etching cities in the lattice
From this the PC rises like a ghost from the machine
So celebrate today its lofty status

For the muse has found a place
Where pulse and meter reign
Where art and science are as one
Where Einstein meets Verlaine

In....

The Amiga Commodore Amstrad Infocom 7T-II
It's the only PC for a poet
It won a Nobel
And they don't know it.

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