Control+Alt+Delete

Highlight, select, cut and paste,
delete, drop and drag, and all before
I ever turn on the computer.

Decisions upon decisions —
what shall I attend to, discard,
move up in my queue?

Was it always like this, and now
we just have the proper metaphor
for how it works, or has it changed?

Was it ever a longhand world
with carefully considered strategies
and long pauses before scratching out

what was written in favor of the new,
and even longer ones before we tossed
the whole page and started over?