The Daily News
1 Last night, Xanga.com was down.
2 Towns, cities, and villages...vanished from the Earth.
3 People who weren't even talking to one another...
4 Wished they could.
5 Graphics, haikus, and self-serving sighs...
6 Vanished from the planet.
7 All the poetry disappeared...
8 And all the flower petals...
9 And all the anime graphics...
10 And all the music.
11 Xanga villagers and other computer geeks just sat around, doing nothing...
12 Love had vanished from the internet...
13 And for a night, nobody complained of how their heart was crushed.
14 People began to notice things...
15 Like their families...
16 And their pets...
17 And that Blind Date is on every night they are wasting on Xangas...
18 Soon, everyone realized that talking to people in person and interacting with family, friends, and dogs...
19 Is perhaps better than throwing nightly angst out into space...
20 Joy returned to the world...
21 And Letterman...
22 And conversations...
23 And the peace that comes with being released from the tyranny of computer fever...
24 I'm off to Camp Anytown 'til Monday...
25 25 Peace, y'all.
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