Off our screens,
and into the printer,
and onto paper,
ripped out,
stuffed in
Inter-Office Envelopes,
and off to the branch.
Paper comes back.
"What did you mean?
Please e-mail response."
Paper goes back,
by mail,
ignoring the "e:"
"In the beginning,
God created correspondence.
Mail and E-mail
He created them.
Mail goes anywhere.
E-mail still bumps up
against the glass screen."
The electric revolt
has come to Stanford.
Stanford
has not yet
come to it.
Originally published in SUL News Notes, September 29, 1995.
c 1995 Brian Kunde.