[Koha] Chat/Poetry for a Friday (Eastern US Time)

[King, Fred]

Esteemed Colleagues,

Anyone uninterested in a bit of whimsy is urged to accept my apologies and hit the delete key.

Some of you are aware that in addition to being a Koha sysadmin, our library's cataloging and tech services department, backup AV department, and a third to half of our reference department (counting noses or FTEs), I am also a poet. Well, poetaster. I usually inflict my works on the medical librarians' listserv, since most of my poetry medical in nature (I don't think most people here would be interested in a poem about central line infections). However, I think this poem deals with a subject that is familiar to us all. It takes the form of an imperfectly formed Pindaric ode. Imagine it's being read by Dylan Thomas. Released under Creative Commons-do with it what you will. If our respective e-mail systems mangle the formatting, you can see it properly formatted here: http://www.philobiblios.net/poetry/ode_to_a_deceased_printer.html

Ode to a Deceased Printer

O laser printer, workhorse of our realm
With PCL 6 proudly at the helm
We welcomed you on your beginning day

Your printouts were a wonder to behold
With illustrations for the tales they told
Two-sided printing, and an extra tray

But now you do grow old and out of sorts
Make origami printouts of reports
And spill out toner fine as any soot
I am afraid at last thou art kaput
Be off with you, dead printer, through the door
And dying so, sleep your sleep mode no more



Fred King
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6670
ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279
MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org

Somehow it seems I managed to get old.  I really have no idea how that happened.
--Brian Baker