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Computer Blues Personification Poem

Computer Blues (revised)

Sometimes I think
My computer is plotting against me

And only me
Trying deliberately to drive me mad

My computer knows when I am busy
Then it throws a hissy fit

Refuses to boot up
Crashes constantly

Looses data that it had the day before
Or five minutes before
Or refuses to save the data

Just f***s with me
As it loves toying with me

Making me yell and scream
At my damn computer screen

Cursing up a blue stream of blue curses
As the blue screen of death
Marches across the dark blue screen


Smiling at me
As I beg it

To do what
it is supposed to do

Just once I beg it
Do what you are supposed to

Open the document once
Not twenty times

Do not not respond
In endless loops of opening

Not responding refusing to close
Until I respond to the error code

Please Mr. Computer
Quit playing games

Play my music
Don't wipe out the sound
On the fifth attempt to play music

Don't take an half hour to load Microsoft products
Don't freeze up on opening ITUNES or Groove or Spotify

Don't give me computer haiku error messages
That only make sense to computer geeks

Such as general error reading files
Who the ***** is this damn general
And why is NSA reading my files

Or can't save the file
Or can't save the an open file
When it just did ten times in a role

And in Microsoft excel
Refusing to move the cursor
Just freezing in place for a moment

And all the other gobblygook messages
That pop up every five minutes it seems
As the computer slowly drives me mad

Flashing the final insult
User driven mad
Mission accomplished