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A surreal and satirical short poem about CAPTCHA, online security, Freud, desire and the strange ways technology tries to read the human mind.
spammers
come in two different flavours:
everyday people
and the criminal bot
to secure you
from being Phised
Sharebaited,
Clickjacked
or molested by Malware
take the CAPTCHA
“Completely Automated Public Turing Test”
they detect duffs
but Spammers are smart –
manipulating
their way round laws.
CAPTCHA’s are solved
by humans alone,
to help stop deviants
in their tracks –
we’ll be rigorous and
capture them. just
select the lions
showing in the photos.
an antagonistic roar
in the backdrop
there’s unusually
a black one
the picture stirred.
phased me, paused
then thought of Sigmund Freud
who touched me
last century.
was networking true,
sometimes distracted
by Bouncing Balls Blast –
but this time compelled
to read in a hurry
Blum.
The Blacky Pictures 1940
summarily concluded:
raging libido is analysed
by the animals you choose –
to think that in 73, 81 and 82
this method worked a treat,
said Kline.
Now beyond the boundary
Facebook validate
when i don
(my horns)

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