Allow one continuous interval
The work keeps its own durations.
An internet blackout poem · by Mozare · 2026
UNHAPPYScenario
Software calls the route away from success an unhappy scenario. The phrase makes interruption sound manageable: a branch to be anticipated, named, and recovered from.
Primary surfaceEnglish edition · v2.6.0
Give it the whole browser
The black surface is composed as one field.
Nothing leaves the browser
No file, message, report, analytics request, cookie, or persistent storage is used.
SELECTED VIEWS
Three notices
The images keep each view inside the surface that gives it pressure. They document the work without replacing its duration.
01
Upload failed
A pale image remains close to arrival. The notice is calm enough to belong anywhere.
02
Reconnecting…
The ellipsis holds the promise open. Its duration becomes more legible than its assurance.
03
Reporting failed
The language of accountability reaches a sentence that cannot reach its recipient.
CONTEXT
The calm language of interruption
UNHAPPY Scenario stays with that calm language after recovery has ceased to be credible. Drawn from the small notices through which systems explain failure and promise return, the poem carries their familiar English into the memory of repeated internet blackouts in Iran.
What begins as technical inconvenience becomes a vocabulary for isolation, deferred contact, and an accountability that cannot be reached. The notices keep their procedural composure; under blackout, that composure becomes one of the work’s pressures.
The title keeps the managerial calm of the phrase and the conditions it cannot contain.
EDITION AND ACCESS
Work identity
An internet blackout poem
Mozare
Mohammad Zare
English edition · v2.6.0 · commit 9f013ba
English
Standalone browser work; no network request or persistent storage
Mohammad Zare. UNHAPPY Scenario: An Internet Blackout Poem. Version 2.6.0, 2026.