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

[Joy Nelson]

Love it Fred!

joy

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:56 AM King, Fred <Fred.King at medstar.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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