It is National Poetry Writing Month 2014 - Let the versifying begin!

Here it is, April again: the day of fools, the cruelest month, the hours of daylight, the weeks of poetry. I begin the annual National Poetry Writing Month (NAPOWRIMO) following sage advice; writing about what I know. 

 

Never Give a Server an Even Break

Unless you backup your backup of the backup,
the day will come when you will find out
the backup you backed up so smugly
has been vaporized like a planet in Star Wars,
and you’ve no recourse but to rescan
pages and pages of things you hope you still have,
and you know you deserve what you got
from letting your data hang out in bad sectors.

©2014 Noreen Braman