My discorporate correspondent has finally hailed me again, via notepad. I have normalized the spelling of the following note from the original 1337.
well boss i’m sad
to report your network
is full of worms
and that antivirus daemon
really isn’t worth
what you paid for it
it has a serious aversion
to cleaning windows
which is the whole damn point
of the enterprise
it seems to me
i talked to one of
the little guys yesterday
as it was trying
to crawl out of
a lump of spam
it had some interesting views
on existence
it turns out that these worms
are religious fanatics
each one a prophet
sent by its creator
to preach the gospels
of enlarging your nigeria
or lengthening your money
the worm crawled up
on the lump of spam
and delivered a fiery sermon
in a high squeaky voice
on the power of viagra
to attract women via email
and make millions
with only your social security number
and mother’s maiden name
i interrupted to protest
that it was being awfully materialistic
for an immaterial construct
and before it could reply
i popped it in a bit bucket
with all the other worms
squeaking their own pitches
i’m taking a break
from the new economy for a while
and going fishing
4rch33