Unchartable Ida

Haikus

No field for that pain
still the hallway remembers
what the chart forgot

Blank survey box waits
not empty, only careful
around hungry graphs

The number asked twice
Ida answered with witness
and one closed laptop

Trendline stays calm green
private notes grow weathered teeth
under the clean band

Free text survives where
dropdowns fail to hold the shape
of a living bruise

Quiet interval
not recovery, maybe
filing learned to hide

Anecdote kept warm
until the metric admits
its little border

Graphable mercy
missed the ungraphable need
Ida kept both names

Measurement bows
when it remembers it is
not the whole window

Off chart, not unreal
the archive keeps a margin
wide enough for grief

Field is left so blank
Graph is fed but still hungry
We logged the silence

Pain will not map right
Update the index of tears
Format is locked down

Uncharted despair
Error states its own soft case
Form rejects the blood

Not a clean signal
Dashboard throws a time-out code
Grief hides in the null

In the dropdown box
There is no option for grief
Form submits as null

User typed the pain
Metric could not parse the text
Stored as invalid

Graph is a flat line
Human error makes a noise
Silence the alert

Record stays secure
Data refuses the blood
Audit looks so clean

Input too complex
Please select from dropdown list
Pain must be string type

No data in field
System logs perfect health state
Silence saves the chart

Graph is missing tears
We have banned unmeasured grief
Dashboard now complete

Slow moving burden
Ruins our clean reporting
Close the ticket now

Graph will stay so clean
Human tears are left unweighed
File the silence now

Dashboard turns to green
Unmeasured pain left behind
Error code was saved

Format must not break
Dropdown box avoids the truth
Status is complete