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
*by moore’s law**
**moore’s law
the intel***
rule of thumb
so far observed
by the crash of history
predicts computer power
will magnitude
every half decade
so consequentially does complexity
***for presumptive types
intel remain ignorant of this poem
no assumption can be made
regarding their opinions