Computer Haiku

 

I did not verify the source, but I hear that in Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Windows/Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry.  Here a few selected messages (owing to translation, some don’t conform to the syllabic rules of Haiku, but funny just the same):

 

The web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.

 

Chaos reigns.  Reflect, repent, and reboot.  Order shall return. 

 

Program aborting: close all you have worked on.  You ask far too much.

 

Windows fatal error.  I am the blue screen of death.  No one hears your scream.

 

Your file was so big.  It may have been useful. But now it is gone.

 

Stay the patient course.  Of little worth is your ire.  The network is down.

 

A crash reduces your expense computer to a simple stone.

 

Three things are certain: death, taxes, and lost data.  Guess which just occurred?

 

You step in the stream, but the water has moved on.  I cannot find your file.

 

Out of memory.  We wish to hold the sky, but we never will.

 

Fatal error.  All data have disappeared.  Screen. Mind.  Both are blank.