Doreen Pearce
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Take care you do not click the paperclip.
Computers harbour presences malign
and demons lie beneath your fingertip.
Strangers send messages and in them slip
foul bugs to mangle all your best designs.
Take care you do not click the paperclip
You may think you have got a perfect grip
on files and documents and all the icon signs
but demons lie beneath your fingertip.
Just call to mind Pandora’s fatal slip,
The evils that she then could not confine.
Take care you do not click the paperclip.
Computer hackers, a strange fellowship,
delight in hidden bugs you can’t define,
so demons lie beneath your fingertip.
Technology and wickedness outstrip
the brains of those who think themselves benign.
So demons lie beneath your finger tip,
take care you do not click the paper clip.
Computers harbour presences malign
and demons lie beneath your fingertip.
Strangers send messages and in them slip
foul bugs to mangle all your best designs.
Take care you do not click the paperclip
You may think you have got a perfect grip
on files and documents and all the icon signs
but demons lie beneath your fingertip.
Just call to mind Pandora’s fatal slip,
The evils that she then could not confine.
Take care you do not click the paperclip.
Computer hackers, a strange fellowship,
delight in hidden bugs you can’t define,
so demons lie beneath your fingertip.
Technology and wickedness outstrip
the brains of those who think themselves benign.
So demons lie beneath your finger tip,
take care you do not click the paper clip.
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