Artifact Provenance Under Repeated Ceremonial Use

Haikus

Document the truth
The manual stands unchanged
Quiet policy

Read the written rule
Meaning drifted long ago
Paper still remains

Binding by the word
System waits for compliance
Never fully works

Trace the origin
Artifact is made of dust
Ritual is void

Prove the object real
We have lost the source of truth
Stamp the document

Ceremonial
Empty actions on the stage
Actors have gone home

Nothing matters here
We repeat the hollow steps
Process makes it true

File the false report
Provenance is fully blank
Archive the decay