Five Oh Three



503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.
To 503 I am not amenable
I'm simple sick and tired of being on my best.
I've thought I should be patient
Give other poets a chance
I waited then pressed enter
And did my little dance.
The servers are just busy for a moment
Wait and see. And so I do
But really I must say
It bothers me. That every Sunday
Morning when I'm trying
To get things done
Some one else has clicked and entered
Stopping all my fun.
It's time to get a faster server
With more gigs per second down
The up speed is a problem
But the down speed makes me frown.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on October 10, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCDEDCFGGHIJIEKLK
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 582
Words 119
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20

Neil McLeod

 · 1947 · Oxford

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 44 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Wilshire Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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  • neilm.55795
    I am glad ypu liked it and hope you understood!
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  • Dianejean57
    Well done
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