They Don't Make It Easy
All I see are dots
I can’t see what I’ve typed
They want strong passwords
Now I can’t remember it
I look at the screen
It’s just too small
So are the buttons
What is it asking?
I try to connect it
The plug doesn’t fit
I go to the shop
What do I ask for?
I just want to print it
The cartridge has dried up
And how do I change it?
What the feck is “PC LOAD LETTER”?
I finally learnt how to work it
And then they go change it
By the time I’ve figured that out
They’ll have changed it again
The kids know how to use it
But they don’t have patience
Besides, they’re addicted
All I see is scrolling doom
It’s supposed to make life easy
It really just is an e-waste
Why can’t it be simple?
They don’t make it easy
About this poem
This is a look at how technology is supposed to make life easy, but sometimes it seems just the opposite. This quote from Wikipedia explains the reference to "PC LOAD LETTER": "PC LOAD LETTER is a printer error message that has entered popular culture as a technology meme referring to a confusing or inappropriate error message. The error message's vagueness was mocked in the 1999 comedy film Office Space."
Written on December 20, 2022
Submitted by twoteesbrett on December 22, 2022
Modified by twoteesbrett on December 22, 2022
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 159 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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