In Which Mac Tonnies Takes A Turn In The Birthday Barrel

Mac Tonnies makes the internet more strange

Than it already is. That's quite a feat!

But he's an eye for signs of hoped-for change,

For beautiful decay, for all that's neat.

A diff'rent kind of skeptic, too, is he,

Who stresses what we don't know but could find

Were we but to try looking. When I see

The world through Tonnies' glasses I'm entwined

In future's promise, good and bad. Today,

His birthday, also is H.P. Lovecraft's!

And we can make of that whate'er we may.

Coincidence, I'll say - yet how I laughed

On learning that. So happy birthday, Mac.

How's that new book a-comin'? Don't you slack!