Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Tom Wheeler
has proposed new
net neutrality rules
meaning that broadband
network owners
would be allowed to sell
an exclusive high-speed
toll road
to whichever content providers
want it
and can afford it.
Wheeler is a Democrat
who says he is committed
to an open Internet
but open and free
is still a "pipe dream"
albeit with fewer and fewer
cumulonimbus clouds
barring the now
prehistoric metaphorical
superhighway Vine
from being swung upon
by the so-called
have-nots
who still have to rely
on their sweet old
Insta-Gram to snail-mail
their selfies to.
The Internet in theory
gives the privilege
of being in a place
called Nowhere
and you are a person
in a specific place on Earth
repping your particular location
while being granted
the inherent trust
of being just another Greek-prefixed
byte in the stream.
Despite that rather Snappy-Chatty tune
a trustworthy little birdie
may have innocently Tweeted
through the Glass
through the Glass
that stream probably will never
"trickle down".
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
