Stumbling across sand,
Bottle in hand,
Louis Merton speaks:
"Disk error,
128 people's lives erased."
Same cost as a plane crash,
They rest in heaps
Of erased streamer 1/4 inch wide,
And 14 years long.
There had been a flaw in the tape I/O,
And now the justice of error was dispensed:
Barbara Newton,
Li Xiau Peng,
John Bassingithwaite,
Tiffany Krest.
All digitally dead.
AUTHOR: The Laughing Fool