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ERROR DETECTED:{UNABLE TO PROCESS REQUEST}

February 7, 2022
By Anonymous

ERROR DETECTED:{UNABLE TO PROCESS REQUEST}

The motherboard is overloaded

The system fan isn’t working 

My brain is running out of storage space.

ERROR DETECTED:{FAILURE TO DOWNLOAD FILE}

Caffeine plagued heartbeat ticks in time with the cursor 

Purple screened eyes stare at a blank document.

Deadline looms as my battery drains 

My head and heart are made of overdue assignments and computer wires.

ERROR DETECTED:{UNABLE TO UNENCRYPT DATA} 

Mainframe lists endless assignments in a code of their own.

I cannot translate analog answers 

from an unintelligible web of numbers. 

The central processing unit is straining under the weight of wordcounts and GPA’s.

ERROR DETECTED:{SECURITY BREACH IDENTIFIED}

A Trojan horse steals past my mind’s firewalls. 

Why not let the computer chips fall where they may

if both the report card and security probe will be damning


The author's comments:

Written for AP Literature Conceit Poetry Assignment 


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