Saturday, May 15, 2021

May Golden Shovel #15.2

source: Pipeline Hack Reveals Seams in Nation’s Cybersecurity Armor

 

Their attack on the oil pipeline

Did not require metal tools, only a coded hack

Devised by a human brain. The damage reveals

Arrogance embedded in big business. Its seams

Split, exposing basic weakness that lies in

The hope that ignorance will protect the nation’s

Infrastructure. But who will create the code for cybersecurity

When future coders prefer games to true armor?

 

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I’m continuing to use Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.

 

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