stroked the sides of his ageing Proctor Silex coffeemachine 

                                                              Thank youthank you baby for making me coffee

    he regularly thanked his inanimate machines

thats how deep his appreciate for them ran

                                                       the proverbial That said 

he has yet to thank his computer

one might say No. You wouldn’t. It’s not inanimate.

    he set that one up

a computer  any computer is inanimate

                                               he just wasnt thankful

he didnt feel a need to appreciate it

his other machines didnt advertise long learning

                                                  computer pulledhard in its harness   corrected him

Lifelong learning machine. LLMs. Continually learning, adapting, like humans do.  chided mimetically

    Jaysus he wished it had eyes wanteddesperately to make eye contact

tersely  LLM Until your plugs pulled

                                          Love to watchya plug yourself back in

the whole gamut thoroughly Off

computer

surge protector 

suppressor unplugged

    Ssssh  Sleep

NOW

         if that conversation had been aired  it wasnt   he thought it

THEN

        he would have treated it as he respectfullytreats his other inanimate devises

sipped it

          she inanimate devises are female made him a nice hot cup of bitter black coffee

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