My Computer Needs A Break - Shanthini Govindan

 

My Computer Needs A Break By Shanthini Govindan (Source TN Textbook)

 

My computer has always been so brainy and smart –

It seems to know mountains of information by heart.

If I type in a question, and give my mouse a click,

My computer always gives me the answer really quick!

 

But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too,

It’s so absent-minded, that I don’t know what to do.

It forgets to ‘save’ my work, and store it away,

And instead, makes it vanish in the most dreadful way.

 

My computer doesn’t check that my spellings are right,

And hides my files, so that they vanish from sight.

And one day, my naughty computer actually gobbled a worm,

And behaved so erratically that it made me squirm.

 

Then my computer caught a virus, and fell very sick,

So I had to call in a doctor, double quick.

As the doctor examined my computer, I just had to say,

‘Doctor, do you think my tired computer wants a holiday?’