NOTIS Freeze
(Written During One)

by Brian Kunde
I think no frost could be as cold
As that felt in a NOTIS freeze:
No doom was e'er so loudly tolled,
As death by Terminal disease.

The inputters are flipping out
Till this predicament abates:
They have no work to be about,
Unless the system operates.

You wait until you're at the stage
Where wilder folk become Berserks:
Before it's up, you're sunk in age,
And can't remember how it works.

But winter passes on: with spring,
Computers spring up green once more.
But input quick, for in the wing
Another outage lies in store.

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NOTIS Freeze (Written During One)

Originally published in
SUL News Notes, Vol. 2, no. 3, Jan. 22, 1993.

1st web edition posted 12/27/1995.
This page last updated 9/20/2013.

Published by Fleabonnet Press.
© 1993-2013 by Brian Kunde.