[Newspoetry] big brother is watching high school students

[Joe Futrelle]

http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/teachers.ednews/05/22/student.tracking.ap/index.html

I cut your line
slipped wire cutters past
the metal detector

ducked behind the bleachers
I know places the cameras
don't see

I cut your line
wanted to since
you cut my lunch money

Dad, that's what bullies
without internet connections
did to me in grade school
but I guess
on the internet everyone's a
bully

I cut your line
it wasn't hard
crashed the cash register
the new expensive-looking one
the lunch line backed up

a glorious sight
I buy what I want with money
I made selling stolen passwords
buy cigarettes and blank CDRs

I am so much cooler
than the dweebs who built this system
a new kind of vandal
my crime, to take back this school
for freedom of choice
more expensive this year than ever

I have information too
about big brother
names, addresses, phone numbers
salaries, who's sleeping with whom
you teachers know how to spy but not
how to keep a secret

if you cross me
this information will blaze across
my website

In every class I have an A
let's just keep it that way
and you grownups stay
out of my way
and every line you lay
I'll cut away

--
Joe Futrelle
editor-writ-large
Newspoetry dawt calm