The Great Bug Hunt

Day after futile day,

I chase code across the screen

Until I'm cross-eyed

And my brain doesn't remember, anymore,

What solutions I've tried.

I've tried them all, I think,

And then some. Even StackOverflow,

That great oracle, has run dry.

OK, Google, let's try this one more time

With slightly different terms.

I hope against hope to find some overlooked

Silver bullet, a magical panacea

To banish this mysterious bug

That infects my code.

Perhaps some generous soul has posted the answer

After sharing my travail and triumphing over it --

But alas! I cannot find any.

My search result links are all purple:

Used up, worthless, desiccated husks.

I still re-click them, of course,

Because deep down I think it ridiculous

That this blasted problem hasn't been solved,

And I still hold out hope that I will

Land on precisely the right page,

Scroll to precisely the right line,

And see there, in lovely  black and white,

The blessed answer to my troubles.

(I do not, of course.)

And so at last I return,

Again and again and again,

To the debugger,

Trying to evade insanity

And somehow discover,

Perhaps in a divine epiphany,

The source of all my trouble.