How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time

Re:How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time by lisper on Saturday October 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#24812136)

It's a noble sentiment, but poetry means different things to different people. Personally, I get a much bigger kick out of a well written snippet of Lisp code than I do from your typical sonnet.

Here's a poem I wrote back in high school in reaction to the famous quote, "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads", which I was taught was by Emily Dickinson but turns out to actually be by Marianne Moore. In any case...

    A poem is a thought that tried
    In vain, just once, before it died
    To reach the page's
    Right hand side

;-)

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Re:How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time by kian on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:02PM (#24813339)

Thank you for that beautiful sentiment.

  They're only words, and always spoken 
  much too late  to stay
  -- only for a moment,
  then they take the breath away

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