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From: tightgas@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Crash
Message-ID: <424@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Aug-83 00:50:04 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 13 00:50:04 1983
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Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
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        CRASH

(A fictionalized account of a series of computer crashes:
To be sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smoky")

Logged in on the Twenty,
I scrounge and I scrape
To get back some data
I'd trusted to tape.

It's crashed more than just once,
More even than twice.
It has crashed three times now.
That's not very nice.

Some teardrops of sadness
Fall down to the floor.
I fear my poor data
Can be found no more.

---   Neal Kilmer
      New Mexico Tech
      nmtvax!tightgas