Windows 8

Today we celebrate lament the launch of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. I have had a chance to try it out myself, and it didn't impress me, but it did move me to write a poem about it....

Windows 8
by Damon Lord

Windows 8! Windows 8!

With dread and doom we now await!

Why do you try, way too late,

The iPad so to emulate?

XP was best, I clearly state.

Vista we did so berate.

Of Windows 7, I can relate:

OS once more going straight.

But with this mess now on our plate,

Why did they bring us Windows 8?

Metro menus are not great:

Poor response, sluggish slate.

The stupid tiles will start to grate

As I attempt to navigate.

Start gone and Task bar, just to create:

In the charm bar, to conflate.

Should Windows we abandon at such a rate

For which you cannot compensate?

I pray you! Do not reinstate

The stuff in Vista we did hate.

I sincerely pray it’s not my fate:

Downgrade from 7 to Windows 8.