Poem, "Most Issues"

13        Existence defined by toil in eras previous

13        Broken, scattered, lost, in an age of convenience

10        A fear of the tide of modernity,

10        Old traditions lost out to new reason

10        Fear of uncertainty, an undertow

10        To take them far from a familiar shore

10        Of the new, of knowledge they make a foe,

10        They denounce with cries of, "corrupting lore"

10        So many childish and pedantic

10        Gnashing teeth, the animals are cornered