Epitaphs–Or, My Hard Drive Nears the End
For years now, I’ve been convinced my hard drive is close to death. Somehow it continues to soldier on day in and day out. But today, my hard drive is…
For years now, I've been convinced my hard drive is close to death. Somehow it continues to soldier on day in and day out. But today, my hard drive is being especially noisy. So, of course, I'm already starting to think about a suitable epitaph for my workplace companion.
The epitaph is a note meant to appear on a tombstone. From the Greek, epitaph means "upon a tomb." Since it has to fit on a tombstone, this note is usually brief and often rhymes. Some epitaphs are funny; most are serious. Most try to get the reader thinking about the subject of the tombstone.
Here is the one I have written for my death avoiding hard drive:
After years of rattling like thunder,
you no longer record my blunders.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
