O monks! Forgive my impertinence.

I disturb your thoughts and labors
only after much exertion.

For I have searched and fasted,
searched and prayed,
but found no answers to my questions.

What say the sigils (A:3/5/4)
or (FA:9/25/20) or [v3](1/5/4)
after a thread's heading?
Are they friendly,
or mean they harm?

What's vroom's mysterious design
that he saw good to give each monk,
however pustular, a Scratchpad?
To what purpose and to what benefit?

And why, dear monks, does the oracle mock
my double-quoted prayers?
Will it not listen to the pious phrases
of a novice? How will he find the
"History of Perlmonks"? Or the meaning
of "XP Whoring"?

Take pity, monks, on a lost supplicant,
whose sinews need resting
and mind needs solace
from disquiet and torment.

The Lowliest Monk

In reply to A Lost Monk's Rogation by tlm

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