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Zip Up Young Man!<\/strong><\/p>\n Yo!\u00a0 You with the Yeah, I\u2019m I weep Hard though it may be I know you must different from what But just once in a while If you hate the And by the way <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alan Katerinsky<\/strong> is an assistant professor of computer security at Hilbert College whose poetry rarely ever mentions computers.\u00a0 Thank goodness for that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Zip Up<\/em> originally appeared in the local arts weekly newspaper ArtVoice, July 11-17, 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zip Up Young Man! Yo!\u00a0 You with the trailin\u2019 droop-scooped drawers! Yeah, I\u2019m talkin\u2019 n\u2019 talkin\u2019 to you hardware-face. I weep (that means cry) for the kids of the world who\u2019d trade 10 years just to have what you cannot even see. Hard though it may be to believe now; I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11605,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntrailin\u2019
\ndroop-scooped
\ndrawers!<\/p>\n
\ntalkin\u2019 n\u2019
\ntalkin\u2019
\nto you
\nhardware-face.<\/p>\n
\n(that means cry)
\nfor the kids
\nof the world
\nwho\u2019d trade
\n10 years
\njust to have
\nwhat you
\ncannot even see.<\/p>\n
\nto believe now;
\nI was young once,
\nor maybe it was
\na couple of times.<\/p>\n
\nmake yourself special<\/p>\n
\nhas gone before
\nor you will cease
\nto exist at all.<\/p>\n
\ncouldn\u2019t you look
\naround you?
\nSee the richness
\nof what you\u2019re
\ntrying to surpass?<\/p>\n
\nmistakes of the past
\nyou\u2019d better know
\nsomething about them.
\nOr you\u2019ll wear them
\naround your neck
\nlike an albatross
\n(that\u2019s a bird)<\/p>\n
\nPull your
\nDAMN
\npants up!<\/p>\n