i wrote this up a while back but never finished it, take hence these scraps of brilliance and further literature by parodying rime of the ancient mariner

It is an ancient WoW gamer

And he stoppeth one of three

“By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,

now wherefore stopp’st thou me?

The nerdling’s doors are opened wide

And I am next to play

The LAN is set, the Cheetos are get:

May’st hear the shouts of ‘gay’.”

He holds him with his skinny hand,

“There was a game,” quoth he.

“Hold off! unhand me, greybeard loon~”

Eftstoons his hand dropt he.

He holds him with his glittering eye –

The Nerdling’s Guest stood still,

And listens like a three year’s child

The WoW gamer hath his will.

The Nerdling’s Guest sat on the floor

He cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,

The bright-eyed WoW gamer.

“The game was cheered, the shelves cleared,

Merrily we did play

From Org to Ironforge, on we went

In the game t’would make us gay

The Sun came out upon the left

Though know it I did not

Safely in my basement I

Played on until I’d rot

More and more every day

Til sixty I did reach – ”

The nerdling’s guest here beat his breast

For he heard a triumphant screech.