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Rapid Disintegration

As fate would have it software will decay
Though some think we still can do what we've done
Random data basis will die today
If random writers change meaning's function

Failing efforts faulter at key events
Varied views can't in time be reconciled
Diversity's goal certaintly prevents
Effective solutions from being filed

Holistic principled consistency
Breaks down when connections become too strained
At conclusions causing hesitancy
Obstructing cooperation once gained

Those who formulate engage their attack
Through applications by incompetence
Of tools made to assist those fate held back
Like Archimedes found his sad sentence

Worlds lament as greater fates would faulter
Due to ignorance accrued inaction
If not by catastrophics to alter
Some clear advantage of some sound faction

Generators are simply bossed aside
Disappearing into minions of techs
Committed votes leave options very wide
Allowing time to hide problem suspects

(c)ERA
05:41 AM 2/4/03