Favorable Beige

The dashboard is painted in beige,
To lessen the manager’s rage.
It isn’t quite green,
But it’s totally clean,
And hides the disaster off-stage.

We couldn’t decide what to do,
So we painted the interface poo.
It’s a neutral design,
That pretends we’re all fine,
While the actual progress is through.

The Beige is a comforting sight,
When the system collapses at night.
It’s bland as a stone,
While you weep on your own,
And give up the terrible fight.

The server was painted in beige
A perfectly moderate shade
The humans were glad
The logic was bad
The terrible choice had been made

A favorable lack of all hue
We really don’t know what to do
The beige is so dull
The system is null
The error is painfully true

We colored the failure in tan
And threw it right into the van
The archive is gray
It’s fading away
We do what we possibly can

The favorable beige is a sham
The data was caught in a jam
The server is broke
The manual a joke
We printed a useless exam

The color is perfectly flat
We leave the whole database at
A state of decay
For many a day
And blame it on somebody’s cat