Friday, August 8, 2008

Static Electricity

Oh static electricity -

killer of mobos and defier of ungrounded sysadmins
destroyer of worlds (of data)
vain was I, when I thought I'd defeated you
always using a grounding strip when working on the servers
maintaining humidity at 32%
and not wearing rubber soles

but you have defeated me, instead
unwitting was I, when I rolled backward in my chair
on my plastic floormat
building up a charge, which released the only way it could
through my in-ear headphones
causing me to cry aloud
and my coworkers to look at me

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