Timothy Gega
09-09-2014, 11:06 AM
The Internet Slow Lane<o:p></o:p>
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The day has arrived to become totally cognizant,<o:p></o:p>
That all of our computers aren’t worth one shiny red cent.<o:p></o:p>
The debate rages on for this war of net neutrality,<o:p></o:p>
This biting of angst has become our new found reality.<o:p></o:p>
The Telecom mega-corps have completely robbed us blind,<o:p></o:p>
They eat us up now by deleting large bits of our precious time.<o:p></o:p>
With each failed reboot we move more like old dino-sloths,<o:p></o:p>
The poet’s life has become fragments of tattered terra bit-cloths.<o:p></o:p>
Computers are moving slower and disrupting this modern life,<o:p></o:p>
Our rhymes are now lost in these rebooting times causing strife.<o:p></o:p>
They move us so slowly that we are now their neo-slaves,<o:p></o:p>
With this new toy gone bad our time is no longer saved.<o:p></o:p>
Slower and slower are their services that we all cannot move,<o:p></o:p>
Communications get lost in their old corporate price-hiked groove.<o:p></o:p>
They sold us every device, in new modern devolved incarnations,<o:p></o:p>
With hardwares, softwares, and Terabytes all frontloaded with frustrations.<o:p></o:p>
They sold us on spywares, and anti-viruses for every new-fangled protection,<o:p></o:p>
Then the media-mega-giants turned around and gave us unmitigated defections.<o:p></o:p>
They always cause panic but their CS mailboxes are quite full,<o:p></o:p>
They offer us something but bait and switch is their golden rule.<o:p></o:p>
They are buying and selling our very personal information,<o:p></o:p>
On their own black-market websites with no guilty reservations.<o:p></o:p>
Credit monitoring is shot and many customers were affected,<o:p></o:p>
So go to the end of the line (again) R2D2 and wait to be repeatedly rejected.<o:p></o:p>
We do business with these businesses that put the almighty dollar first,<o:p></o:p>
While their associates of employee's are all starving and dying of thirst.<o:p></o:p>
So, where is that utopian future that they had all sold us and promised?<o:p></o:p>
Well, they moved it offshore living the tax-free life in the sunny Bahamas.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
©2014 Tim Gega<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
The day has arrived to become totally cognizant,<o:p></o:p>
That all of our computers aren’t worth one shiny red cent.<o:p></o:p>
The debate rages on for this war of net neutrality,<o:p></o:p>
This biting of angst has become our new found reality.<o:p></o:p>
The Telecom mega-corps have completely robbed us blind,<o:p></o:p>
They eat us up now by deleting large bits of our precious time.<o:p></o:p>
With each failed reboot we move more like old dino-sloths,<o:p></o:p>
The poet’s life has become fragments of tattered terra bit-cloths.<o:p></o:p>
Computers are moving slower and disrupting this modern life,<o:p></o:p>
Our rhymes are now lost in these rebooting times causing strife.<o:p></o:p>
They move us so slowly that we are now their neo-slaves,<o:p></o:p>
With this new toy gone bad our time is no longer saved.<o:p></o:p>
Slower and slower are their services that we all cannot move,<o:p></o:p>
Communications get lost in their old corporate price-hiked groove.<o:p></o:p>
They sold us every device, in new modern devolved incarnations,<o:p></o:p>
With hardwares, softwares, and Terabytes all frontloaded with frustrations.<o:p></o:p>
They sold us on spywares, and anti-viruses for every new-fangled protection,<o:p></o:p>
Then the media-mega-giants turned around and gave us unmitigated defections.<o:p></o:p>
They always cause panic but their CS mailboxes are quite full,<o:p></o:p>
They offer us something but bait and switch is their golden rule.<o:p></o:p>
They are buying and selling our very personal information,<o:p></o:p>
On their own black-market websites with no guilty reservations.<o:p></o:p>
Credit monitoring is shot and many customers were affected,<o:p></o:p>
So go to the end of the line (again) R2D2 and wait to be repeatedly rejected.<o:p></o:p>
We do business with these businesses that put the almighty dollar first,<o:p></o:p>
While their associates of employee's are all starving and dying of thirst.<o:p></o:p>
So, where is that utopian future that they had all sold us and promised?<o:p></o:p>
Well, they moved it offshore living the tax-free life in the sunny Bahamas.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
©2014 Tim Gega<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>