Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:02:23 -0400


>To: sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>From: cyberdiva <radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu>
>Subject: one click - by theresa
>
>
>one click"
>  what does it mean?
>  mostly distance
>  missed encounters
>  misrecognitions
>  mis-takes
>
>  "one click"
>  means i know you
>  no, wait--
>  i don't know you
>  some day "one click"
>  will mean the end
>  of this world
>
>  "one click"
>  i get nervous
>  with the help of one button
>  the boy full of hate owns a bomb
>  with the help of one button
>  she is harrassed by strangers
>  to whom she foolishly gave
>  her e-mail address
>  in good faith
>
>  bad faith now
>  this medium scares me
>  tedium
>  too much time spent
>  typing away
>  "one click"
>  we are elsewhere
>  "visiting"
>  "touring"
>  i don't talk much these days
>  to old friends
>
>  "one click"
>  bang bang, they are dead somewhere
>  dots on the map
>  blips on the radar
>  nothing changes just gets faster
>
>  foreign peoples women
>  probably dark skinned
>  keep getting plundered, raped, killed
>  the U.S. government can't see faces
>  from up here, at the top
>  where they stand looking down
>  on the rest of the world
>  controlling things
>  with mouses
>  "one click"