Friday, April 26, 2013

Xerox


                                                                               Attribution: Joseph Berillari
Image: A Photocopier - Xerox
Source: Licensed through Wikimedia Commons (here)

Before, letters and
notes were written or typed,
a wasted effort

Later, a boon to
students and office helpers
but wasted papers

Now, scanning marks its
impending demise. Costs and
convenience supreme

Written for Leo's Haiku Heights Day 27 with prompt xerox

10 comments:

  1. I love the contrasting wastage you put forward ... well thought of haiku !!!

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  2. Absolutely and one can understand this wave of progression better, from the students and office goers, who will vouch for it!!Nicely thought out!!

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  3. Also the source of much industrial spying - people leaving top copies in the machine! Great write.

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  4. oh we still give ours a run for the money at the school....we use it so much we have to have maintenance on it weekly...

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  5. Yeah we use ours at work a ton too, much faster

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  6. A wonderful invention. Just think of all those scribes copying things by hand before printing ....:)

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  7. Very well written.

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  8. Very smart and well-written haiku

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  9. A great way to lay out the xerox's past, present and future.

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  10. Progress. I'm old enough to still remember the smell of mimeographed material...loved it. It was probably the equivalent of glue-sniffing!

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