Hi Christina,
What a great slant-ways look at what matters!
I must admit I often look up at all those CCTV camera's and think of the 
people who are sitting looking at the screens at me - and for what reason? 
We all think, I assume, that they're there to look at someone else, and that 
someone else doing something wrong! I just think of them watching me ambling 
past with my carrier bag containing a loaf of bread and getting paid for 
doing it.
Somehow we've got into a culture where we're all being told that others know 
more about us than we know they know. So it's good to be presented, in the 
poem, with an utterly unselfconscious cat who, when he's is watched over, is 
looked after and then fed.
I also like the way it works with the past, and the present, but from a 
possible future.
It's a delightful piece.
Bob


>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Identity Theft
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:52:02 -0000
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>Identity Theft
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>If my hard disc is stolen, sold for a song,
>transported to a small Kaduna stall, resold,
>passed on, password cracked, and my private files
>opened, my secrets scoured and screened,
>whoever reads will know that today, under anaesthetic,
>my white-whiskered Winston Fletcher's teeth
>were cleaned and tonight he'll eat Sheba
>and his breath will be sweet.
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>christina fletcher

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