complexity
of uncivil law
i recall the proud pronouncement
in nineteen eighty ish
that computers have become
the most complex of systems
created by mankind
now this complexity has grown
ten thousand times
like embryo to adult*
english law
has not
yet computers
do not need
a ring of nerds
advising any mundane man
on how to what
telling them
which click to where
or when to mouse
complexity
is simply used
no expert
stammers round
law
that such a simple system
needs heards of clever beagles
merely to operate
condemns itself
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