The following poem appeared in INFOCUS Magazine. The original authors are Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College and Seminary of Grand Rapids,Michigan.

A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers established "waka" as the proper pronounciation for the angle-bracket characters < and >, though some readers held out resolutely for "norkies". Keeping the established pronounciation in mind, the text of poem in question is as follows:

		<>!*''#
		^"`$$-
		!*=@$_
		%*<>~#4
		&[]../
		|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud. To wit:

		Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
		Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
		Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
		Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
		Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
		Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.