Error messages strewn across my terminal. A vein starts to throb. Their reproof adds the injury of insult to the shame of failure. When a program dies what you need is a moment of serenity. The Coy.pm module brings tranquillity to your debugging. The module alters the behaviour of die and warn (and croak and carp). It also provides transcend and enlighten -- two Zen alternatives. Like Carp.pm, Coy reports errors from the caller's point-of-view. But it prefaces the bad news of failure with a soothing haiku.