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computer haikus

Your file was so big. 
It might be very useful. 
But now it is gone. 
-- David J. Liszewski

The Website you seek 
Cannot be located, but 
Countless more exist. 
-- Joy Rothke

Chaos reigns within. 
Reflect, repent, and reboot. 
Order shall return. 
-- Suzie Wagner

ABORTED effort: 
Close all that you have. 
You ask way too much. 
-- Mike Hagler

Windows NT crashed. 
I am the Blue Screen of Death. 
No one hears your screams. 
-- Peter Rothman

Yesterday it worked. 
Today it is not working. 
Windows is like that. 
-- Margaret Segall

First snow, then silence. 
This thousand dollar screen dies 
so beautifully. 
-- Simon Firth

With searching comes loss 
And the presence of absence: 
"My Novel" not found. 
-- Howard Korder

The Tao that is seen 
Is not the true Tao, until 
You bring fresh toner. 
-- Bill Torcaso

Stay the patient course 
Of little worth is your ire 
The network is down 
-- David Ansel

A crash reduces 
your expensive computer 
to a simple stone. 
-- James Lopez

Three things are certain: 
Death, taxes and lost data. 
Guess which has occurred. 
-- David Dixon

You step in the stream, 
But the water has moved on. 
This page is not here. 
-- Cass Whittington

Out of memory. 
We wish to hold the whole sky, 
But we never will. 
-- Francis Heaney

Having been erased, 
The document you're seeking 
Must now be retyped. 
-- Judy Birmingham

Serious error. 
All shortcuts have disappeared. 
Screen. Mind. Both are blank. 
-- Ian Hughes