We grow number by the numbers
As each agency encumbers
Us with figures to replace our natal names,
And we fidget with the digits
Feeling quite prodigious idjits
As we stumble through those rigid numbers games.
You might liefer be a lifer
Than confined within a cipher,
But the pressures, ever rifer, intervene
To reduce your rage to umbrage
And identity to umbrage
So that mankind can be managed by machine.
Every alphabet's archaic--
Roman, Arabic, Hebraic--
Full of kinks that goad computors to explode;
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