There must be more to life than computers

There must be more to life than computers
Networks drives print queues users
Staring at a screen all day
Wishing fault calls would go away
Sometimes I wish I had a life
But then sometimes I grab the knife
Never mind it's pay-day soon
To pay the bills to rent the room
There must be more to life than computers
But if there is it doesn't suit us
They call us names like nerd and geek
But oftentimes our help they seek
We may not be intellectuals 
But we remember passwords, fix DLLs
And all those myriads of things
So that with joy they shout and sing
Their computers work, they smile with glee
But do they thank us, you and me
No we just do repetitive tasks
So they can take their tape drives and ram up their
with either hand
We'll leave them to it, on their own
And they can weep and rant and moan

© 1997 Owain F Carter.