Sniff. Cough. Shuffle, shuffle, sniff.
Scritch. Click. Scritch.
Tap, tap, rat a tap, tap, tap. Click. Click.
Keyboards click, clack, click.
Fingers tap, tap, tap
Touch type, tap, tap.
They sound like the future.
Like insects chattering across the keys.
Sending signals out to midnight blue skies.
Scritch, scritch. Click, click, tap, click.
Metallic chatter, bursts of sound.
Keyboards click, clack, click.
Fingers tap, tap, tap
Touch type, tap, tap.
They sound like the future.
Like insects chattering across the keys.
Sending signals out to midnight blue skies.
Scritch, scritch. Click, click, tap, click.
Metallic chatter, bursts of sound.
Then there is a sigh, a shift. The plastic squeak of desk chairs
and the dusty slide of sandy-soled shoes across the linoleum.
and the dusty slide of sandy-soled shoes across the linoleum.
These are the sounds of computer-based testing today.
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Ugh! The dreaded computer-based tests. (Not like Scantrons are much better.)
ReplyDeleteGreat piece! Love your figurative language. It's interesting what you can hear when all is quiet in a classroom.
ReplyDeleteOh, this does bring it all back...one more month until I hear those sounds.
ReplyDeleteOh, this does bring it all back...one more month until I hear those sounds.
ReplyDeleteOh, this does bring it all back...one more month until I hear those sounds.
ReplyDeleteTesting. Ugh! Your poem...YAY!! Hoping it's done soon!!!
ReplyDeleteNo! No! No! I wanted magic, poetry, writing! Argh!
ReplyDeleteOh, the sigh. We've got a month and a half left!
ReplyDeleteAnd it has only just begun...to throw another soundscape in...good listens...
ReplyDeleteLove "insects chattering across the keys" Lee Ann. I hope it'll be over soon.
ReplyDeleteLee Ann, I am glad that you could capture those sounds through poetry.
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