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    CyberPsalms
by J. Edgar Hix

 


CyberPsalm 1.1
You came to us
executable, Jesus:
user-friendly shareware
to upgrade our systems,
expand our capabilities,
link us to the Spirit’s
bulletin board.

You came to us without
viruses,
without hidden costs,
with complete
instructions,
on-line help
and 1-800, 24-hour
technical support.

We expected You,
but when the prompt
said "Enter"
we didn’t.

 


CyberPsalm 2.1
God of all programming
languages,
my .exe’s are not
executing.
My .com’s are commanding
strange things.
My Readme.txt is in
Greek, not ASCII.
All my applications
are incompatible.
I am full of bugs.

Play Your fingers over
my keyboard.
Run Your diagnostics.
Reconfigure my system.
And, for goodness sake,
please back me up.

 


CyberPsalm 3.2
Relational God,
only pure database and
deeper than data.
Your words are
the assembly language
for Your people’s
applications.
Nest me in Your
operating system.
You are my config.sys
and autoexec.bat.
My win.ini.
Your command.com is
written in my root.

 


CyberPsalm 3.3
Here is my BIOS, Senior
Designer;
my tree, its files
barely better than
randomized.
I have installed and
tried to uninstall
so much shareware and
freeware
downloaded from so many
web sites
only You can debug my
.dlls,
correct my paths,
defrag my c: drive.

Here is my system:
all my codes and
passwords,
all my hidden files.
Optimize me.

 




 

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