COMPUTERS WERE INVENTED TO ANNOY US.

                                                   XCIII (93)

I'm sorry that your photographs
Disappeared in space -
Perhaps they are now being looked at
By a distant alien race.

All computers are evil
And malevolent creatures,
Driving their users to a fury
Is one of their main features.

We might think we own them,
But really they own us.
We let them take us over
We didn't make a fuss.

They make us log on every day
And if we do not
Viagra ads. fill our in-box
Junk mail - spam - the lot.

If we get ideas above our station
And think that we're the boss
Our computer promptly crashes
And makes us incredibly cross.

But if we approach them
With a meek and humble mien
They might let us see what we want
On our computer screen.

November 2006