The rulers of the modern world devise
new forms of torture for the older set,
keen to ensure that everyone complies
with arcane dictates of the internet.
To save your health? To publish what you write?
For reimbursements? Queries to the state?
“To contact us, please log in to this site” –
a site we find we cannot navigate.
We cannot use the languages we learned.
Talents for gaining new ones have decayed.
Letters aren’t answered. Calls are not returned.
There are no Helplines to provide us aid.
We’re left regretting our deficient skill,
alone beside our inkpot and our quill.