Knockoffs
I got a book I ordered in the mailbox overnight,
'Twas bitter-sweet for good it was as book;
But letters set in bold fresh type in version I had seen
Were shrunken down – it had a knockoff look.It's other side of POD I guess it might be said –
Keeps older books available for all.
But quality's the first to go as typeface changes size;
The look and feel from childhood took the fall.It helped me see the role designing books has in our game;
Like ‘Cradle’ film, the first one I produced –
Its biggest flaws were parts I did where technique was not there,
So quality of it was quite reduced.So now my knockoff version looks like Xerox long ago –
A copy made from copy and it shows;
The letters broken, print uneven, poorly laid on page –
So bad a non-designer even knows.The quiet which I felt when young on reading it at home,
Was gone, though poems' words were all intact;
I never would have known the role designers play for us –
Old fashion type-face leaves me cold in fact.navigation