Why?

The printer won’t print and I don’t know why.

It tells me that the ink levels are fine

I printed something just the other day,

What’s wrong, can’t somebody say?

I’m running to Google, I’m running to Bing,

Dad doesn’t know how to work the darn thing

I unplugged it and plugged it back in

I just want to be finished by ten!

It’s spitting blank pages and it’s jamming up

All this nonsense makes me want to upchuck

Printing things shouldn’t be this stressful

It’s just a little picture, it’s nothing special!

I turned it back off but it won’t turn back on

One more minute and my sanity’s gone!

It’s whirring and screaming, it’s back on again

I’m praying to gods I don’t believe in

Lights flashing like the Fourth of July

It’s half past nine, I’m going to cry

I’m uninstalling and installing again

Why must this printer cause me such pain?

Where’d I go wrong, what happened to it?

I can’t find a manual or a repair kit

The instructions on the internet are vague and unclear

I’m screaming to the heavens, can anybody hear?!

I don’t know what I’m doing anymore

I think I’m going to be up past four

It’s been installing for half a century now

How can I solve this problem, how?!

It was only a picture, a picture, that’s all

I never asked for the printer’s downfall

Somebody, anybody, hear my plea

I just want the printer to print for me!

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