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Title:       Past
Date:        2026-04-29
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2026_apr29_past/
Word Count:  120
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> Finally, here’s today’s prompt (optional, as always). In “After Turning
> the Clocks Back,” Jennifer Moxley links present with past, using a few
> well-placed details to invoke both a sense of the daily “now” and a
> nostalgic sense of the speaker’s long-ago life. In your poem today,
> similarly compare your everyday present life with your past self, using
> specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the
> reader’s mind.

Great and terrifying computing machine
Seems to me that I have infinite attention
to give you

But the machine is new
barely two decades old

What, oh what, did I use to do
Before screen life?

Where did all the attention go?