electromagnetism streams 
across the air, and everywhere; 
we daily see each others' dreams, 
and certify them foul, or fair, 

and so we hide from prying eyes 
what we would keep protected: 
then find, to what seems poor surprise, 
we're mostly unconnected. 

we try, and sometimes do succeed, 
we do our best with what we've got: 
but true connection often comes 
from things the internet 

is not