Modern inventions …
The computer a godsend …
Scant erasers due!
Psst: provided you don’t hit the delete button in error!
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© by rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011
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CloakedMonk’s MarchChallenge prompt – Erasing
http://cloakedmonk.com/2011/02/27/march-challenge/
1858 Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil with an eraser attached.
"On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea" 
to me it is a blessing for sure- i used to be obsessed with perfection when i wrote or painted, my dustbin were filled with crumpled papers.
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I am also a “recovering” perfectionist … I remember the day when I would reach near the end of the page … make an error … only to rewrite it again …
😉
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Great poem, good laugh! thanks! hugs, pat
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Aim to send out at least one chuckle a day 😉 xoxo
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I agree, at least with this, that computers give us a respite from erasers.
Well done!
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Nothing beats the feel of pen and paper used during the ritual of writing …
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The ‘undo’ button is my best friend. Over the years, it must have saved me hundreds of hours of rewriting something I accidentally erased. Deep in the recesses of my mind, I know that recreating an erased masterpiece always falls far short of the original.
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I agree – one can try to recreate an original, but it usually falls very short of the original … I use the undo button often, but occasionally “something happens” and it is lost into cyperspace … never to be seen or heard from again! :-0
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Short but wise
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😀
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Yes!
I still write a lot in pencil – and rub out – although I reckon I delete more words on my computer than I produce…
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Me too 😉 … I run out of ink faster as well … I do not like pencils … most of mine do not have erasers … the erasers are long-gone!
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