What began with an  Earnest yearning  For pure utility  Quickly became  A hemispheric purging performed  With Stalinesque finesse    All the papers burned  And the tapes erased  With their arms cut off  All hands were lost  And Left helpless for anonymity  To snuff their infamy    Not revenge for an  Opaque offense  Merely irrelevance  Lesson to be learned:  Muses, use your aesthetes with care  For they're your archivists