The McGonagall Online Wordpress Tragedy
(a parodic elegy by @chiropteracupola and @paleode-ology, composed upon the unfortunate discovery that mcgonagall-online.org.uk is no longer online)
It was in the unfortunate year of 2026 That the developers of Wordpress some errors failed to fix Whilst I descaled the kettle with a half-an-hour left I sought upon the Internet but was left sadly bereft For the website mcgonagall dash online dot org dot uk Had at some point in the last month been regrettably taken away By some unknown wordpress error that was described as critical We've all been left without the poems which we once thought pitiful When first I noticed the tragedy which had befallen my day It was to tumblr dot com I dashed without delay Oh the horror! oh the pain! to add this to our daily strife That the arrhythmic poorly-rhymed works of William Topaz McGonagall should have no further online life To the DMs of our friends we instantly repaired For our grieving of this website must instantaneously be shared As I mourned over my bowl of pasta, made not from wheat but the humble potato My frantic searches turned to other sites where William’s poetry might lay low Though elsewhere upon the Internet these poems may yet be found How else but on a dedicated website might we easily seek tales of lovers tragically drowned Or perhaps of little children who perished in dramatic conflagrations And a thousand other extremely overwrought dismal situations Now tossed about from site to site like so much shipwreck'd flotsam Our hopes shan't fail — archival could yet prevail on poetry dot com But notwithstanding that, it still remains that in the year of 2026 We did not learn from Willie's words and build our websites quite securely out of bricks And so to all you people who have never felt such loss Beware! for your Internet treasures come not without cost If only to some wise soul a premonition had occurred They could have saved us all from the tragedy of these lost words By recording William’s poems in a spare notebook or other physical location of some kind So that when Wordpress assassinated William Topaz McGonagall, we would still have evidence of his great mind!
