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abort, retry, ignore poem

Found this classic and fun poem about the "Abort, Retry, Ignore" message. I have been able to trace back the source to Here it is:

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Only this and nothing more.

Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion? 
These were choices undesired, ones I'd ne…