[stylist] Poetry sample

[Atty Rose]

That is impressive off the top of your head!

I love it when that happens.

I bet Jim gets a laugh out of this one. LOL

Atty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 2:33 PM
Subject: [stylist] Poetry sample


> OK
>
> Here's something I cooked up on the spot.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
> Oracle
>
> I sit at my computer seeking the oracle of data
> yet it is closed to me, I can not see it's revelations.
>
> Priests of Infotech had meddled with the magic of my mechine
> it had worked, the oracle was near.
> But this was old, a magic obsolete
> So it much be swept away, for only new magic can be used.
> The oracle of data is closed to me, hiding its face behind error messages.
>
> What wizard shall I invoke so see the oracle.
> What mystic rites of driver manipulation
> What mysterious steps I do not understand
> I follow the prompts invoking the steps.
> Yet the oracle of data is still hidden
> behind the clouds of error messages.
>
> I seek a priest of data then to help.
> I share my screen, I share control.
> He speaks of paths and files,
> such things are not my write to know.
> Only the priests of can invoke this magic.
> Yet the oracle of data is still aloof
> hiding its face behind error messages.
>
> And then, revelation! I find it.
> This oracle has many names.
> By blessed accident I find the truth
> stumbling upon truth unknowing.
> Praise and thanks to the priests of machines.
> I revel in enlightenment data is reveled.
> The oracle of data no more hides his face.
> I can perform my allotted tasks.
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