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Sparks Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics have no feeling.<br \/>\nOftentimes they leave you reeling.<br \/>\nOne day, just as you had feared,<br \/>\nyour password has disappeared.<br \/>\nAll your work&#8217;s gone into hiding,<br \/>\nwith so much upon it riding.<br \/>\nReestablishing contact<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t just a simple act.<br \/>\nJump through hoops to hit dead end.<br \/>\nElectronics aren&#8217;t your friend.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t find some help online.<br \/>\nYour machine can&#8217;t hear you whine.<br \/>\nGoogle tells you, try again.<br \/>\nWelcome to the looney bin.<br \/>\nFall into a thousand traps,<br \/>\nincrease harder keyboard taps,<br \/>\n&#8217;til you&#8217;re pounding on &#8216;escape,&#8217;<br \/>\nyour face purple as a grape.<br \/>\nIf electronics could laugh,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d break your keyboard in half.<br \/>\nSilently, you hit reboot.<br \/>\nThen you go off on a toot.<br \/>\nElectronics? Just a vapor.<br \/>\nNot your friend like pen and paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics have no feeling. Oftentimes they leave you reeling. One day, just as you had feared, your password has disappeared. All your work&#8217;s gone into hiding, with so much upon it riding. Reestablishing contact isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2724\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":924,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=924","url_meta":{"origin":2724,"position":0},"title":"Morning Fur","author":"Rick Young","date":"July 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Black dog with white paws on a red pillow. Feathered tendrils of a dream, erasing, as grey dawn, fanned by rain, laps the windows. Stumble toward electronics to confirm the world is still alive: no visible proof. 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