Paul T Briggs' : The algorithm

From: "Paul T. Boggs" 
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:43 -0500
Subject: "Algorithm" Poem by Paul Boggs

Inspired by Tim Davis' poem, "Matryx Factyrs" which was inspired by Blake's
"The Tyger."

  Algorithm

Algorithm, my delight
Running at the speed of light
What the genius, who the geek
Could forge thy objects ever sleek?

In what language were thee writ
That enabled every bit?
What the templates - how applied
And what the math down deep inside?

Thou wert born with MPI
And that enabled thee to fly
On Beowulf we set thee free
All cycles thou consumed with glee.

When the stars come out at night
And ask a sacrificial rite
Do we just sneer and charge ahead
With no fear and with no dread?

All this wonder; all this speed
And yet I wait here still in need
Alas the run's untimely halt
Said naught but that some seg did fault.

Algorithm, my delight
Running at the speed of light
What the genius, who the geek
Could forge thy objects ever sleek?