Eternal, ephemeral text

Dismissing Jonathan Franzen's sense that electronic text is "just not permanent enough" and his fear that future readers may lose "that hunger for something permanent and unalterable," Andrew Sullivan sees literary immortality -- for all?

Hanging out in some iCloud somewhere, the eBook will be eternal. And also more accessible to readers.

I've often had kindred thoughts, and worked some of them out when I was in children's poetry-writing mode. Below, three variations, the first two written about 2005-06 and the last one about 1994:

Mission Accomplished?

Homer's heroes thirst for glory--
to live forever in song and story.
Hector, Achilles, Odysseus,
fighting each other, fighting death,
clinging to words, on scroll or page
handed down from age to age,
saved now on the Internet -
think that they're immortal yet?