My parents’
great grandchildren
stand at the brink
of an alarming
tolerance for an
interlinked world.
They can’t make a move
without the MAN in the machine
seeing,
hearing.
More frightening still,
they don’t mind.
Citizen now means:
“the one who is watched.”
We are data,
information
collected,
interpreted,
stored.
To continue leads to incalculable,
unnoticeable loss.
To turn back would bring disaster.
We are being slowly
strangled
by a billion wires of
safety
&
good
sense.
2014