Modern Poe

I wrote this without stopping, so there’s no editing, aka there may be grammar and spelling mistakes, but enjoy!

During late the midnight hour, when clock hands merge into a tower,
I sat and typed, message windows covered the screen galore,
Suddenly a link was sent, and to my browser I doth went.
When I opened browser updated to version number four
I came to dead link, a lost page, a four oh four.
Seeming only this, and nothing more.

I saw that it was a red moon, most associated with gathering gloom
Torrents ticking, hitting percentage number four,
I wished this end, so pirated movies I could send,
Thus I stood and walked to my wooden door,
Thinking of hunger I walked to my wooden door,
As I left, I heard “Nevermore”

This noise it came from speaker, my face could go no bleaker,
When I gazed to screen, there it was link four oh four,
It said at 4am on the dot, my hard drive would figuratively rot,
Curse who sent me that link from my message windows galore,
Who I now cannot find from my message windows galore,
Links I now hate, forever more.

I quickly ran the virus scanner, when quickly up popped advertisement banner
“Why did I click it”, to the gods I did implore
Furiously I tried in vain; it was like trying to stop the rain
I threw my keyboard at my door,
Watched it bang and bounce off my door.
I picked it up, and set it as before.

I try to calm my teeming flood, but my anger was a flood,
I looked at the hole now present in my door.
Ashamed something so simple, caused my mind to dishevel
But now computer cleaning would become a chore
Yes, I can beat this, I can unwork this chore
It’s only a virus, and nothing more.

I verily began to type, though my anger was still quite ripe,
Research began into this ill-begotten four oh four
I let myself a noticed gasp, as the concept I did grasp
Into this nature of this four oh four,
Into this Trojan called four oh four,
I had his, but needed more.

I loaded tools from the net, this I must beat my mind was set,
I would beat and conquer this four oh four,
As every attempt began to flounder, the noise on speaker grew much louder
It repeated as before the word only, “nevermore”
It would say it as in laughter “nevermore.”
I, hoping it was this, and nothing more.

The speakers I did power down, so I would not hear this sound.
But still I heard this nevermore.
“Am I going mad I thought”, what this virus has awrought?
The frustration caused by this four oh four
The sound in my head from this four oh four
I will remember it, forever more.

I put my ear to speakers’ side; there came no sound from inside,
It must be in my head which I hear the “nevermore”
Then I noticed the clock ticking, the edge of four it was licking
The screen began to flash the link to four oh four
Oh how it filled the room with light, this four oh four
Followed by the sound, “nevermore”

I shut it down devil’s haste, my breathing quickened, my heart raced
The screen went black, no colours it now bore.
Then it started with my hands departed,
It loaded itself and went to page four oh four,
It sat and began itself going to page four oh four
My sanity was shattered forever more.

I dropped to knees, hands clasped and feeling the breeze,
Caused from fan with silent roar.
I saw the clock tick down, second hand going round
“Please stop” to the computer I did implore,
“I won’t click it again” I did implore,
All that came, was “nevermore”

I curled up on floor ice cold, listening to virus speaking bold
When I saw the clock did strike the number four
My mind was gone, how could I have been so wrong,
To click the link to four oh four
To read that page of four oh four.
Thus my computer declared “nevermore”

When I heard the awful chime, reminding me of the time
I then looked up and saw the machine as before
The virus had run a different course, still with feeling unremorse
Leaving desktop painted in the word “nevermore”
Doing this, but nothing else, with the word “nevermore”
With my hands, my hair, I tore.

Insanity is what it left my mind, this virus so very unkind,
Leaving the message from four oh four
It haunted my misladen soul, taken its ghastly toll,
I lay on floor and mumbled “nevermore”
Could think of nothing else but “nevermore”
My mind was lost forevermore.

After gathering my composure, warming from the cold floor exposure
I unplugged the machine from one of the plugs galore
I sat and pondered the situation, feeling the built frustration
Caused from link four oh four
Oh that cursed link four oh four.
How it haunts me, forevermore.

When my strength returned at last, I began the reheartened task,
Of fixing my computer as before.
As the monitor filled the room with light, my eyes choked on ill begotten fright
As I stared at the screen much like before
Painted with the word but with more as before
This will go away, nevermore.

So to this day it happens, each time a part of my soul entrapens,
Seeing my desktop littered with the word nevermore
I have tried to great exhaustion, to not continue being hostage
By this virus from link four oh four
By this cursed being from link four oh four
But I shall be free of it – Nevermore!