Dead languages in an encrypted world
Floating on currents of textual seas
New syntax and context unfurled
Ideas carried by the digital breeze
Mass less data of New Babylon
Still growing ziggurat of a modern age
Non-physical ideas carry on
With or without the page
Language united with math
Following the binary path
What or or who does it benefit
If anything or anyone at all
Are the data’s flows sinister or beneficent
Are its actions fair of foul
– Gene G. McLaughlin 2020
