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Book 12 Page 8
You can’t hide
You can run, but you can’t hide,
You can try and cover up, but you can’t disguise,
You can do what you want, but remember! all the while,
you’re on someone’s computer files.
You can think you’re underground,
but within an instant, a file can track you down.
You can leave the country, -travel ten thousand miles,-
But remember! no matter where you end up, you’ll be there on file.
You can think you’re anonymous in some obscure town,
but no matter where you are, you can be found!
For the computer will know exactly who you are
when you use your bank or credit card.
For no mater where you go, there gonna known,
who you are in ex-officio.
For you are recorded in a million locations,
thanks to the marvels of today's, ‘computerization.’
© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au dominicj7@poetry.net.au 28/12/99