Thom Forbes

Rocky the garbage man

said there was no air

down by the river

and he waved his hand

across his face

as if he were shooing away

everything

that had ever oppressed him.

Then Rocky asked

how my team had done

in the morning ball games,

taking an awkward uppercut

with his hands flying off

an imaginary bat handle.

Rocky observes a lot more

than he feels

he can articulate.

Rocky was wrong.

I sat on the rocks on the promontory

facing south

and the wind came

as it always does

when I'm here.

Always.…

I just had reason to look back on a book proposal I wrote in December, 1990, three years before the graphical Web, called "I Have Seen the Future and It Is Nintendo (But Who Killed the Daily News?)"  The phrase "Daily News" was both a look at the ever-so-slow death of New York's Picture Newspaper and a metaphor for print newspapers in general, but I won't bore you recounting what we've all seen happening. I will, however, paste a paragraph that probably seems more prescient than it really is…