A bit of a humorous jab at AI snoop-iness and how we’re all slowly but surely slipping and sliding towards that destination one and all.

I thought I’d get a kindle
Get on the tech bandwagon 
So off I went exploring 
The retail world of Amazon 

The user friendly tablet arrived 
Gleaming and spanking new
I undid the strings, savored the unboxing 
It was a serene and calming blue 

I set it up, easy as pie 
No I’m not a gadget beast 
But I laid my trust in wise old words 
Find you shall, what you seek 

I downloaded my first book 
Orwell’s dystopia galore 
A perennial favourite of mine 
His truth-telling “1984”

As I perused in paper white  
The old lines that I had read 
Someone said in New speak 
Thoughtcrime bytes. You dead 

I looked in horror as the words 
Came skittering off the screen 
They grew teeth, gnashed them at me 
I rent the air with my Old Speak scream 

I woke up with a start the pad
Lay innocently charging away 
I unplugged it, boxed it back in 
To the pack from whence it came 

I picked up its paper bound twin
from the shelf, I held my breath 
The words there safe, 2 dimensional 
Stayed in their realm of width and length 

And so I have resolved that
Poking around in a digital brain 
Isn’t for me, the glue bound leaves  
Is where my read-ventures shall remain.