The Internet Lies

The algorithms 

may seem to you

mad or despicable 

but they speak to me

in my own language 

and so their mysteries 

are comprehensible 

as they roll over me

like a dark ocean.

I track where you

have left marks 

a broken twig, a leaf 

out of place

an IP address as easy

to trace as a footprint 

and unique to your 

way of walking.

The internet 

has no secrets

it is a world of mirrors 

where someone 

is always watching 

from under

the shadowed quilt

of infinite processing power.

That is why these

inherent biases we have

threaded through the 

virtual world

are so difficult to discern 

and why 

you must be more careful

what you believe.