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Political Clinkers and Cultural Slag

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

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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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