with an Apple Macintosh you can't run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer. both Kaypro and Osborne computers use the CP/M operating system but can't read each other's handwriting for they format (write on) discs in different ways. the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but can't use most programs produced for the IBM Personal Computer unless certain bits and bytes are altered but the wind still blows over Savannah and in the Spring the turkey buzzard struts and flounces before his hens. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes

Analysis places tech's petty squabbles next to timeless nature. It pits the frustrating, proprietary world of early personal computing against the unchanging rituals of the natural world. Form mirrors the fragmented tech landscape. The short, abrupt lines and jarring line breaks feel like a system error or a jammed disk drive. A sneer at capitalist nonsense masked as progress. The whole poem lists incompatible systems, echoing lifelong disgust with any system designed to trap and frustrate the ordinary person. The punchline is pure: after the tech rant, the switch to the turkey buzzard is classic. A crude, ugly bird performing a mating ritual is the real, unchanging operating system, undercutting all the human silliness. It reads like a prophecy for today's walled gardens, predicting modern frustrations with incompatible apps and digital ecosystems.