Unprotected

[Delta40]

My hard drive groans
I need protection...please!

I thumped started it
and a trojan or two
galloped right through

the disk drive spluttered
malicious object!
and triggered more malware
to yank my hair

Oh the names I have called
when the printer stalls

I think they spy on us
and give me viruses

screen freeze fun
U R L to run

is there no way to detect
the purpose of such objects?

[Bar22do]

Your Middle English couldn't fix it, neither could Chaucer be of help, I guess...
So I suggest you use Mac and be protected forever after!
A nice spontaneous modern verse!

[Delta40]

Mac mae ne'er fellen
thogh myn herte chaunteth
wan ye pynchen at
myn poetry!

lol

[Bar22do]

Mac mae ne'er fellen
thogh myn herte chaunteth
wan ye pynchen at
myn poetry!

lol

aha! this I understand much better; and myn herte chaunteth too!

[blank|verse]

See if you can get hold of Don Paterson's latest collection 'Rain' (which won the UK Forward Prize in 2009), in which there's a poem called 'Song for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze' who makes leftfield electronic music. Your poem reminded me of that, although Paterson's is more OTT. An extract from his poem reads:


For I would have all your plug-ins run in real-time, in the blameless zero-latency heaven of the 32-bit floating-point environment, with no buffer-glitch or freeze or dropout or lag;

and yes, that is copied verbatim. It's very tongue-in-cheek - see if you can get a copy and read it all.

I liked your poem as well - you seem to have an appealingly restless desire to be creative with language. Don't lose that, but see if you can tidy up the poetry side of things and you'll be on to a winner.

[MorpheusSandman]

I love the good natured humor of this; I imagine all of us can relate to infuriating computer problems. I had my HD, motherboard, and video card all fail once within 3 months of each other and all 3 times I had to ship it across state to get it fixed. The wonderful "convenience" of the digital age, indeed.