Tuesday, November 2, 2010

"I Think My Computer is Crazy" Emulation

I Think My Computer is Crazy, by Jack Prelutsky

I think my computer is crazy,
it's gone off its rocker today,
the screen is impossibly scrambled,
and I can't control the display.
Illegible symbols are flashing
in places they just don't belong,
it's surely no help with my homework,
every last answer is wrong.

I'd always depended upon it,
but now its behavior has changed,
it's churning out absolute drivel,
it's clear my computer's deranged.
It's making disheartening noises,
like kangaroos hopping on fruit,
it thoroughly garbles my input,
then burbles, "THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!"

Something inside my computer
is buzzing like billions of bees,
even my mouse is affected,
it seems to be begging for cheese.
I guess I know why my computer
is addled and may not survive—
my brother inserted bologna
into the floppy disk drive.

--Can you emulate this poem? Create a humorous or serious poem about something in your life that has gone crazy. Use at least two similes and a metaphor. Figure out the rhyme scheme of the poem and work to write your emulation with the same scheme.

Title your emulation, "I think my _______________________ went crazy."
--Jack Prelutsky, from "A Pizza the Size of the Sun"

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