Week 26 Shared Reading

My Computer Ate My Homework

My computer ate my homework.

Yes, it's troublesome, but true.

Though it didn't gnaw or nibble

and it didn't chomp or chew.

It digested it completely.

It consumed my homework whole,

when I pressed the Shift and Enter keys

instead of Shift-Control.

It devoured my hours of typing,

every picture, chart and graph,

and it left me most unsettled

when I thought I heard it laugh.

I would guess it was a virus,

or it could have been a worm,

that deleted every bit

but didn't prompt me to confirm.

I suppose I might have pressed Escape

instead of pressing Save,

but, regardless, my computer

now will never misbehave.

For I found a good solution

and I smiled to hear the crash,

when I chucked it out the window

and it landed in the trash.

--Kenn Nesbitt