A sonnet by a broken-hearted geek

Sonnet by a broken-hearted geek

Shall I compare thee to a MacBook Air?
No. Thou art confusing and much thicker.
Ctrl. Alt. Delete: You crashed our affair.
I found out why by looking on Flickr.
And now you're running Boyfriend 2.0,
Ignoring all my pokes and pings and tweets,
I know your outward solid state won't show
That underneath your human heart still beats.
You hacked my love and optimized the code,
You are the plug-in I cannot replace.
You are the coolest app, the best download:
I've grown accustomed to your interface!
@exgirlfriend: what can this pwned geek do,
When all my base are still belong to you?

(Note: I'm not much of a geek but I sometimes like to write poems. Writing a sonnet is like doing a tricky crossword: you have to play with words and you get a brain-workout: that's the fun. This is 'creative writing'. Any similarity to my real life is only accidentally intentional.)

7 Responses to "A sonnet by a broken-hearted geek"

October 31, 2008 at 10:19 am

Henrietta said:

Ouch!
Very Sharp.

G2 could do with a bit of a polish with a grimy rag though.

October 31, 2008 at 10:48 am

Sue said:

*sigh*
Shakespeare never had to see his Dark Lady change her Facebook status to “single”.

October 31, 2008 at 2:10 pm

cian said:

you are this close to turning into sevitzdotcom

October 31, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Lynne said:

That pic of Shakespeare looks just like you with your beard/moostash.

October 31, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Dan Wilson said:

Lynne: I have a full head of hair?!?! ;O)

October 31, 2008 at 6:35 pm

Lynne said:

Dan – he might have a full head of hair but be hiding it under a bald wig to fit in with the shaven boys when he goes to footie.

anyway the top of his head is cut off in the pic. So what would I know?

November 1, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Plant Geek said:

I like this Mr Wilson. One of these mornings you will reboot and find that you have a new shiney plug-in making your system race just as fast again x