Another lullaby

Hush little baby, hush, don’t you cry;
Big Brother will rock you to sleep by and by.
No fussing and fretting, just close up those eyes
and drift off to sleep to a sweet lullaby.
Because Big Brother loves you and wants you to know
he’s always beside you wherever you go.
Big Brother will spare you the pain and the grief
of a world that’s half crazy and armed to the teeth;
No need to be scared; no, you don’t understand;
rest assured that the nation is safe in his hands.
Big Brother will bang up the drunks and thugs
and never back down in the war against drugs;
he’ll clean up the streets and he’ll keep Britain great
by breaking the unions before it’s too late.
and then there’s the police, education and health,
all in need of reform and a source of new wealth.
Big Brother can do it: the future is blue.
You voted him in, now he’ll look after you.
We’re in this together, we’re none of us plebs.
Big Brother is watching us snore in our beds.

© Abigail Wyatt

New powers to record every phone call and email makes surveillance '60m times worse'
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Abigail is the 2012 winner of the Lisa Thomas Poetry Award. Her collection, 'Old Soldiers, Old Bones and Other Stories' , will be published by One Million Stories early in 2012.

Data Dictator

The law of unintended consequence tossed a knowing wink in my direction,
“Tyranny and political ambition are linked but fools don't see the connection;
This politician sees me not, yet for his single issue he's got a big erection.”

One quarter turn of the screw

One quarter turn of the screw

Data-dictator slowly screws you

As sentient aspects of the universe, we are born individuals in God's eternity;
You, as free upstanding citizens, have the inalienable right to cyber privacy;
He, as ambitious Data-dictator, has the insatiable wrong of cyber piracy.

One quarter turn of the screw

One quarter turn of the screw

Data-dictator screws you over

Personal information about you is private property, you own your 'me' copyright;
Harvesting and mining without consent is theft, and abuse of a fundamental right.


@thePoetGeo


Snoopers charter will cost taxpayers £2bn


Even in draft form @thePoetGeo sees the proposed bill for what it is, a declaration of war on liberty and privacy of the individual. Therefore, the local Tory and Liberal offices have been informed not to come canvassing on my doorstep or else they are liable to become targets for sudden acts of poetry.

The New Luddites

Are you the new Luddite
keeping the technology of consciousness
from the hungry mind?

Are they the new Luddites
regulators of the Internet
inhibiting evolution of human kind?

Is the Internet an addiction
perversely altering the mindset
of those lower casts who toil?

Or is Social Network freedom
a false consciousness liberator
and harbinger of the new oil?

Before the engine was built
oil was mostly underground
not doing what it had the power to do.

Do we light the odd lamp
or set 5 billion intellects ablaze
the future of civilization is up to . . . who?

©  @thePoetGeo

Internet Addiction Harms Brain
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@thePoetGeo is a semi retired Zeppelin builder with the New Model Army