Hard Copies And Chmod And Everyone Thinks Computers Are Impersonal Cold Diskdrives Hardware Monitors User-hostile Software Of Course They're Only Bits And Bytes And Characters And Strings And Files Just Some Old Textfiles From My Old Boyfriend Telling Me He Loves Me And He'll Take Care Of Me Simply A Discarded Printout Of A Friend's Directory Deep Intimate Secrets And How He Doesn't Trust Me Couldn't Hurt Me More If They Were Scented In Lavender Or Mould On Personal Stationery -- Terri@csd4.

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Hard Copies and Chmod

And everyone thinks computers are impersonal
cold diskdrives hardware monitors
user-hostile software

of course they're only bits and bytes
and characters and strings
and files

just some old textfiles from my old boyfriend
telling me he loves me and
he'll take care of me

simply a discarded printout of a friend's directory
deep intimate secrets and
how he doesn't trust me

couldn't hurt me more if they were scented in lavender or mould
on personal stationery
-- terri@csd4.milw.wisc.edu

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