posted to Pelican Dreaming 15 years ago today

O.K., call me paranoid, but there are networks out there. Have to be. Otherwise 
how to explain why you suddenly get a concentration of hits via a search engine, from different 
i.p. addresses, from different locations, all with the same search phrase. In the last two hours 
I’ve had six hits for “beauty busted in bali”. The time before that it was “accordion smurf”.

Maybe it’s all innocent. Or chance. Maybe not. ¿Quien sabe?

I retreat further into my shell. Put more alfoil up over the windows. Recall a poem I posted here 
many months ago. Put up even more alfoil. 

Homeland Security 

Certain words are flagged 
for recognition. The surrounding 
passages on the endless 
monitoring tapes are 
isolated & extracted, sent past 
voice recognition software, 
digitalized for immediate 
interpretation of permutations 
& association. Names, times, 
places. More words to add. This 
is no brief history of the world 
but a paranoic infinite 
dictionary. By themselves 
the words are meaningless. 
Meaning is added later. “I am 
going to the shops” is sufficent 
reason for assassination.