John Milton wrote Paradise
Lost completely blind;
his three daughter transcribing
the long poem as their father
recited it to them;
the good old cause ultimately
triumphant; atheism,
Protestantism, modernism,
iconoclasm have won the day;
AI is simply another name
for the same old gods;
the Romantic genius;
expressionist madman &
modernist huckster all changed
the way we look at the unseen;
science marching on;
nuclear power; astrophysics;
quantum mechanics &
superconducting supercolliders
usher in a world of tech
as mankind becomes primitive
& simultaneously advanced;
devising ways to live longer
& better ways to ****;
Milton wrote Paradise Lost
completely blind; Dante wrote
the Inferno in exile;
hermits, saints & shut-ins turn
their backs on the world
of finance & trade; devoting
themselves to pure feelings