Techiquette

The world went black
and then the servers flashed and freaked out
autonomous programmes and bot nets
viruses, worms and Trojan horses
distributed denial of services attacks
flash floods of data
data fusillade focused on a single port
port 254
they were rerouting traffic,
through rotating IP addresses
Domain Name services translating
All asking just one question
are you virtual?

in the dim glow of a monitor
my answer is typed out
in courier
size 12
The last rhyme in history
The last poem known to man