Inadvertently Poem by Susan Williams

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Inadvertently I did not quite
log out of Facebook last night.
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Inadvertently neither did I quite
shut down the computer at all last night.
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My churlish computer did not like this
And while I slept the sleep of innocence
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My computer smirked and locked herself up
in every possible way to lock a computer up
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In the morning I strolled into my den
singing la-di-dah-di-dah over and over again
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until I found to my surprise
that I had been most unwise
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for the computer's blue light was already on
and right then and there I knew I'd be doing no shopping on Amazon
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I knew Missy Computer being offended of course
would be on her version of a computer high horse
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again and again I tried every known command
I even tried a clever but lesser known demand
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and being from the devil spawned
she stubbornly kept refusing to respond
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my fingers danced frantically over the keys
but Miss Computer declined to unfreeze
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I finally managed to log off FB using a loophole
and I thought I was brilliant and on a roll.
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Computer, shut down, I said, feeling like a rock star
Computer said, Oh, you want Adobe Reader, here you are.
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I said, No, I want you to shut down, you **unprintable epitaphs**.
Oh, said Computer, you want to look at your photographs!
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No problem here they are!
Need I tell you Computer was the only one enjoying her repertoire?
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NO, I screamed, I want you to shut down,
Shut down, shut down, you miserable clown
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Well, why didn't you say so, said Computer with great placidity,
and opened Google flagrantly ignoring my acridity.

No-no-no, I do not want to oogle Google or read a book about Romanoff
or hear your strictures on my pictures, I want you to turn off.
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Of course you want to know the latest gossip about the movie stars
and the shrew plopped me down to read Twilight memoirs
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At that point, I inadvertently gave little Miss Computer a black eye.
and booted her right in her motherboard and yelled bye-bye
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She must like being roughed up, Miss Bride of Satan so snide
she finally shut up and shut down.... or hopefully died.
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But my son resuscitated her and voila, here I am, ready to astound
and prepared to spread sunshine and other stuff around.
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