10.Stop Error
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My monitor is frozen
In late four-something sun
That cuts through icy patterns
Another day's begun
.
Recallingall my losses
While trying to ignore
The theme that keeps repeating
From Call of Duty 4
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I tap-tap off the volume
And stare out at the road
Where cars and snowploughs scroll by
A broken line of code
.
From some embedded program
That executes our town
The river and the co-op
This house that's falling down
.
So tape over my window
With dark green garbage bags
Enclose my name in brackets
Make HTML tags
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To start and end forever
Above the wheezy breath
Of cooling fans and hard-drives
Beyond the screens of death