Catastrophe!

hard drive failures make me cry.


sketched in digital
my digital sketchbook
my most important folder
no paper, no materials
easy and cheap to freely express
close down the app
open an old file
"disk read error"?
what happened there?
open another and see what happens
the shit?!
meticulously, test each file
disk read error
files corrupted
the hard drive must have fucked up
all of my artwork in that one folder
all of it gone, lost to the ether
collecting the scraps
found in other directories
a pale shadow of years of work
dump in the last backup
of ten months ago
ten months of work
that I'll never get back
cold sweat and shock
resigned to the fact
it will never come back
is it so hard to backup,
on a regular basis?
is it karma for chiding
those who've made the same error?

wake up in morn and continue to mourn
just broken and sad and regretting
I look at the backup once more
and I realize a file is absent
a favorite piece and it should be there
so I search the drive just in case
may have been saved to a different folder
if I can find it, then there's that at least
"digital sketchbook" in anachronistic directory
I don't remember backing it up there
in fact I would never back it up there
and obscure folder for a disused program
lets take a look, curiosity piqued
there it is!
all of it!
it's back! and all of it works!
well, mostly.
only three corrupt files!
and they aren't even good ones!
I back that shit up right away!
a disaster reversed, it's so funny
better than a disaster never happening at all
fuck yeah! hurray!