(thing) by ElizabethH Tue Aug 29 2006 at 3:36:53
    Today we have Prob and Lem

    Today we have Prob and Lem. Yesterday
    We had riding the pine And a fortnight tomorrow
    We shall have Eleven sentences about boiled tongue. But today
    Today we have Prob and Lem. The noders
    Eyeball their screens in an outbreak of breathless excitement,
    For today we have Prob and Lem.

    This is the Button A. And these
    Are Buttons B and C, whose use you will see
    In a moment. And this is a large two-way mirror
    Which in your case you have not got. The speaker
    Warms to his little nagging notes with ardent, unflagging apathy,
    Which in our case we have not got.


    This is the room which is neatly barren
    With a gentle press of a button. And please do not let me
    See anyone pressing their buttons. It is perfectly easy
    If you have principle on your side. The noders
    Are silent and motionless, never letting anyone see
    Any of them pressing their buttons.


    And this you can see is hard. The purpose of this
    Is to prevent the pressing of button A. We can press
    the space bar up and down: we call this
    Waking the computer. And rapidly up and down
    The noders are fumbling for pizza and spilling their cola:
    They call it ruining the keyboard.

    They call it ruining the keyboard. It is perfectly easy
    If your mind is attempting to cope with the quandary expert
    While your hands are engaged in juggling with buttons and pizza
    And trying meanwhile to secure a reasonable share
    Of Big boy chicken salad for grown-ups, which in our case we have not got:
    For today we have Prob and Lem.


    E. Haulfield


I like it!