Punctuation Poem

A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers has established "waka" as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <, though some readers held out resolutely for "norkies."
The text of "the poem" follows:

<>!*''#

^"`$$-

!*=@$_

%*<>~#4

&[ ]../

|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equals at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.