DEAR ABBY: I know your column deals mainly with people's problems, but occasionally I see a humorous item included. Since the computer is thrust on me whether I like it or not, I'm enclosing an original poem that shows how I feel about their "infallibility"!
I hope you get a smile out of it, as I often get a smile out of your column, among the more serious items. -- LORAINE REXFORD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.
DEAR LORAINE: The poem is witty, and I'm sure my readers will find it as amusing as I did. Read on:
OWED TWO COMPUTERS
BUY
LORAINE REXFORD
THEE spell check on my computer
Tells WON if a word is an AIR,
I'm SEW glad TWO have this convenience
We FILL BETTOR because it is THEIR.
WEE RING ARE hands when we're worried
ARE spelling may KNOT BEE WRITE,
Webster WOOD TERN INN his grave
TOO NO WEE OUR KNOT SEW bright.
SEAMS the old-fashioned dictionary
Showed AWL the words clear and clean.
SEW what WOOD WEE DUE without it
TWO SEA if words say what WEE mean?