My Computer Needs A Break

UNIT 7

Poem

My Computer Needs A Break

                                 Shanthini Govindan

My Compter Needs A Break

My computer has always been so brainy and smart –

 It seems to know mountains of information by heart.

If I type in a question, and give my mouse a click,

My computer always gives me the answer really quick!

But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too,

It’s so absent-minded, that I don’t know what to do.

It forgets to ‘save’ my work, and store it away,

And instead, makes it vanish in the most dreadful way.

My computer doesn’t check that my spellings are right,

And hides my files, so that they vanish from sight.

And one day, my naughty computer actually gobbled a worm,

And behaved so erratically that it made me squirm.

Then my computer caught a virus, and fell very sick,

So I had to call in a doctor, double quick.

As the doctor examined my computer, I just had to say, ‘

Doctor, do you think my tired computer wants a holiday?’

                                                                                                       Shanthini Govindan

About the Author

Shanthini Govindan is a widely published, award-winning author of children's literature in English in India, who has written over 50 books for hildren including poetry, picture books and short stories for children of all ages.

Glossary

brainy (adj) – very intelligent

absent-minded (adj) – being forgetful

vanish (v) – disappear

dreadful (adj) – unpleasant

gobbled (v) – ate hastily or greedily

erratically (adv) – unsteadily or unpredictably

squirm (v) – to twist the body in discomfort