iOvid
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What Ovid did two thousand years ago,
The World Wide Web has lately caught up with.
He did it many, many times. The slow
Web has, at last, relearned to copy myth
And metamorphose it just as Ovid did.
You search for any ancient story now
And, WHAM!, a million hits come from that grid
That Google searches through. A big KERPOW!
Hit in cartoonish mode will pop up on
Your screen or even one turned into porn
Is not unlikely to appear. The spawn
Of geeks is all too worthy of our scorn
Too often though. They lack the god-like nous
Of Ovid who deployed shape-changing Zeus.