"emptor" poems
*Smart phone paranoia, contagious at best
Has the zombies a stumbling the streets without rest
Transfixed to their cellphones, oblivious to all
By the lure of the Tweet and the Facebook’s enthrall
It’s ironically depressing that with all of this spin
When you download the Apps…the Devil walks in.
They access your contacts, Your banking, your loans
Your credit card details, unravel your phones,
Delve into your Facebook and spy on your life,
Check back through your history and peek at the wife.
They sell all your secrets to bidders galore
And when you go bankrupt… they’ll show you the door.
It’s “Caveat Emptor” or Buyer Beware
‘Cos technology’s clawed onto us by the hair,
It’s the Devil you do or the Devil you don’t
It’s progress with the crowd or resist and you won’t
Compulsion is growing by systems in place
By government, banking and big business pace
Through Google and Apple and Microsoft sway
The data is mined and the marketeer’s pay.
Tomorrow is here and we don’t have a choice
Ya live without Smartphone…ya won’t have a voice.
And the dragnet for data accessed by the Apps
And the sensors and whereabouts GPS tracks,
With the malware evolving to beauteous height
Means ya privacy’s shot and ya turn out the light.*
PS: Beneficium accipere liberatum est vendere
(To accept a favour…is to sell one’s freedom!)
Marshalg
Waiting for it all to come back and bite me on the ****
Pukehana
AUCKLAND
21 February 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 4:44 PM UTC
The businessman was on the prowl
that soft night in September.
He was looking for a bit of strange
and a night he would remember.
She need not be a ****** queen
but he didn't like them jaded.
A rose bud opened, deeply blushed,
surpasses one that's faded.
Caveat emptor stills applies
He'd do well to remember-
Curvy vendors lay and lie
to those who seek illegal tender
Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 9:13 PM UTC
Caveat emptor, buyer beware
Not everything is the way it seems-
You stole an assumption from me
Caveat emptor, buyer beware
My Innocence had gotten the best of me-
Countless imaginations about you, countless dreams
Caveat emptor, buyer beware
I felt betrayed even without commitment
I don’t know why but I thought you’d be an exception
Caveat emptor, buyer beware
A kiss on my cheek and venom on your lips
Vulnerability at its finest
Caveat emptor, buyer beware
I thought you had committed a sin,
But it was me who had wronged for I hadn’t realized-
Caveat emptor, buyer beware
Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 4:00 PM UTC
we are who we'd most like to be
we are what we project
we see but what we want to see
the real becomes suspect
we read a life between the lines
that may/may not exist
confessional or fictional
the reader takes the risks
readers fall in love with words
and think they love the poet
the poet fills a fantasy
and rarely will they know it
the poet seeks a balance 'tween
their lives, their art, their craft
controlling readers' impulses
would drive most writers daft.
so if you think you know someone
by reading line or four
the romans have a line for you
it's "caveat emptor".
Apr 19, 2011
Apr 19, 2011 at 5:21 PM UTC
I really didn't mean it, promise I never even seen it
done it accidentally on purpose instead
when its comes to purpose, I’m renowned for being earnest
besides you secretly enjoy being completely misled
accidentally on purpose, accidentally on purpose
rules don’t have the same applicability
its only just a circus, when its accidentally on purpose
its a far lower threshold of culpability
don't do me this disservice, it was accidentally on purpose,
please consider when apportioning blame
when its accidentally on purpose, almost doing you a service
the blame is not even close to the same
There’s a thing called caveat emptor, its supposedly there to protect ya
sadly not against other’s intentionality
when its accidentally on purpose, this rule’s completely out of service
tis writ in the annals of human morality
accidentally on purpose, accidentally on purpose
usual rules they just don't apply,
accidentally on purpose, that’s why you cannot deter us
it permits me to self-indemnify
Pete Granger DDA
Jan 9, 2023
Jan 9, 2023 at 11:18 PM UTC
with burnish of false veneer
he spouted words
to thine ear
as an unknowing
dill one listened
one had succumbed
to the warbler's charming
sound
that time honored adage
doth hold so true
be of guarded view
whence a dodgy line
is sold unto you
ne'er settle for a spurious
claim of love
the warbler
unto your heart
states his undying devotion
yet there is no substance
to his currency's
valuation
Dec 25, 2014
Dec 25, 2014 at 5:42 PM UTC
"This is the last one."
Famous last words.
Caveat emptor;
I think it means consumer beware.
Just one more,
I swear.
He's doing it again.
I promise to buy more beer
tomorrow.
Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 1:34 AM UTC
Deregulation.
Deregulation.
That's what Trump says
Is going to save the nation.
To hell with the environment
And social media activist memes.
Let the coal industry dump
Coal debris in rivers and streams.
Forget greenhouse gas emissions.
There are rules to rearrange,
Repeal, expunge, delete, rescind…
Who cares about climate change?
Good-bye to banking restrictions.
Give tighter controls the ax.
Down with all consumer protections!
Three cheers for Goldman Sachs!
Who needs the EPA?
Why do all the activists seethe
When factories pollute the air?
The air is JUST something we breathe.
Caveat emptor--
That's the rule that's going to last.
Caveat venditor
Will become a thing of the past.
Benefiting the 1%
Has to be a worthwhile goal.
How else will those at the top
Keep the people under control?
Through rollbacks in regulations
Runs one common thread:
Relief for the corporations;
The rest of us can all drop dead.
Deregulation.
Deregulation.
That, according to Donald Trump,
Is going to save the nation.
- by Bob B (4-17-17)
Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 10:02 AM UTC
Pure gobbledygook
Joe public bedazzling
Politician grade
The best that money can buy
Becomes void post election
Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:45 AM UTC
Do not mistake
the poems for the poet.
The exquisite grace
of a panther
stalking the jungle
in blackest night
renders it
not one iota
less dangerous.
Enjoy my words
at a safe distance.
Never, dear reader,
confuse the words
with the man.
- mce
Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 6:56 AM UTC
my sage advice
is more sage than wisdom
yet they call me occam
when they seek my counsel
better a devil you know
when advocacy is needed
but beware
this devil has a devil of his own
Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 1:11 PM UTC