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 Copyright © henry toromoreno, 2009. All rights reserved.

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Now that we are all connected
can we declare once and for all
and forever ever that
what works best for me
may not be right for everyone else?
And that the same is true of you (plural)
and all your beliefs (super plural)
 
That maybe you’re part exotic cactus
that grows only on the rocky coasts of Aruba
and I am half [...]

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Don’t get psycho (or loco)
     no one can control
          the media or the message
now that we have the internet
     don’t get paranoid
          1984 has come and gone
without incident
it’s not like we’re building a
     giant, all-knowing, ubiquitous
          database full of private information
     including pictures, video, and text
          that can be tagged and cross-checked
     and connected to [...]

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Copyright © henry toromoreno, 2008. All rights reserved.

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Copyright © henry toromoreno, 2008. All rights reserved.

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Copyright © henry toromoreno, 2008. All rights reserved.

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The fact
     that you are reading this
     proves my whole idea
     that you been trying to figure out
     who I am and where I live
and that you’ll probably be
     looking my name up on the internet
and checking out my interests
and vital statistics and hobbies
and such
and all that information
     that you are gathering for
     (we know [...]

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The sounds in your head, the things that you dream
The way you’ve learned to understand and mean
The things you recall, your memories and all
The yesterdays you put away, your nightmares and the disarray
It all belongs to someone else, when you consider what you became
There’s almost nothing of yourself; your face has changed, you’re not the [...]

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What we talked about when we huddled ‘round fire
was closer to truth, to god and desire.
What we say to each other when connected by phone
e-mail, or blackberry, still leaves us feeling alone.
What we heard about when we sat around listening in caves
was news of real things that connected our ways.
What we hear nowadays [...]

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