How I Will Lose My Writing Name

Avot tells us He who pursues his name Will lose his name I do not have that much of a name But I have pursued my name All my adult life And I will in time definitely lose Whatever name I have- When I die will be one step But there will be others afterwards Self- postings shut down True there are books But many will probably disappear For lack of sales And those as firm as their publishers And their ISBN's Strong as Google Books Will one day When the worldwide network suddenly shuts down Disappear also And if not be buried in the distant multitude of billions of other names All my great ambition for literary immortality Will have been proven to have yielded zero My name will not be as I will not be And writing this now Hoping it will be of value Is only one more small passing Of my own vanity of vanities Which I hope Will not be a cause of disappointment To those who live after me.