Here are three poems based upon  a Library of Congress blog post: “Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives”   I like to do this as a way of summing up in my own mind the gist of an article. In this case it is the continuing issue of ‘defunctitude and decrepitude and desuetude’ of  web links.  Maybe it is also the alzheimerization of the entire web given the centrality of links to meaning, aka location.  The captions explain…a little.  One conclusion:  institutions are not digitally capable of the kind of persistence of memory needed to archive even our most quotidien storage requirements–links.  Printed copies of these poems would last longer, n’est-ce-pas?