Gone Phishing

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Gone Phishing

“I’m a con artist in that I am an actor, making people

believe something is real whey they know perfectly

well it is not.”--John Lithgow

God help us gather the energy to gird our loins

against the fricking & fracking hordes of phishermen.

My own friends were fueled with compassionate fear

receiving an email reporting that I had been robbed

in Spain, was now stranded and sorry, but

I was begging for a 1000 bucks to bolster

my meager abilities to ever get out of damned Madrid,

to arrive home, both happier and spouting homilies.

All claims were callously bogus, of course, but

it did give hackers heinous access to my honied

laundry list of friends and lingering contacts, and

yes, it took a lot of time to reduce the torment,

to untangle the terrible tumult,

to reclaim a replica of control, my rights

if not to privacy, then perhaps just to mock-pastoral 

cyber-freedom; so hey, be afraid of phishing scams. 

Glenn Buttkus

July 2013

Posted over at dVerse Poets FFA

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