Ars Computa
by Casey Jepson
© 2003


It’s a dysfunctional family in the house
Of my computer and me
Feeding our three children
Abort, Retry, and Fail
Always do they argue
About which chair he or she gets to double-click

I keep my computer awake so late
That she can’t get up in the morning
Always with the web surfing
Trying to find better comics
To furnish our walls with

She’s on probation from all the times
she’s performed an illegal operation
And had to close
Maybe she’s rebelling the way I
Violate
Her floppy disk drive
Five times a day

But it’s a profitable relationship
Like two trees
That grow in a spiral around each other
If one should straighten, the other shall fall
I give her an old book or baseball card
She sells in on eBay
And I get the money
Needed to put our kids through school
Pointlessly

Always
Abort quits in the first semester
And Fail never passes a class
And Retry; won’t she ever give up?

"Honey," I say, "have you ever considered
Adoption?"


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