Lost In The Tech Age

I forgot my password

Can’t seem to remember it

I did not forget the whole thing

Oh no I did

What was my username?

What? I forgot that too

Damn

Now I can’t work on my website

Got to call the tech guy

Now he asked what is my customer id

I said excuse me what’s that

I spend time entering possible combinations

I know one of them has to work, has to

I try different letters and numbers

My frustration grows as I keep getting that same wrong password window

The browser mocks me YOU FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD

So many numbers and passwords form debit card, locker, bank number, depart of Ed employee number social security, checking account myspace, gmail, hotmail, facebook, twitter 

It’s all too much to keep in my head

My computer remembers all my log in information

But from time to time some how the info gets lost on my hard drive

What is my secret question?

What’s the answer to my secret question?

Which email account did I use to register for this site

I want to see my home page

Should have wrote down the stuff on a sticky note

Or put it in a word file

I smack myself in the forehead

I curse myself

I forgot my password to my email

How can I check my email to get the new temporary password?

My nightmare continues

Did I use upper or lower case letters?

Did I use symbols and numbers?

I start to pull out my hair

Wrong password

Wrong username

Wrong password

Wrong username

It’s highlighted in red

I watch the page reload and hope this time it will work

my faulty memory

I think maybe I should just say fuck it and start a new account

But what about all my emails all my friends and followers

I image tons of important emails coming in that I can’t check

People leaving incredible comments on my facebook page

Having one hundred new followers on twitter

Having hundreds of hits on my flickr photos

I take a deep breath and sigh

I watch the little dots appear on the screen in the password box

I cross my fingers and toes

I try and try like some hacker trying to break a code

I want to explode

Finally I remember the email account I used

I check the email

Get my username and new temporary password

Go back to the website

Type everything in again

It’s a miracle I can see all my shit

I create a new password but again I don’t write it down

Set to repeat the same thing over again

Mic check Mic check

We are back again I represent the 99 percent

Who resents the one percent who has all the money that is spent

They got millions and billons to satisfy the greedy

They don’t care to feed the needy

We camp out and protest the mess
of this so-called democratic process

We march and demonstrate to try to alter our fate

Plastic bullets are fired and still we remain inspired

Tear gas is thrown in the crowd

panic sweeps through like a jet stream in the fogginess

We wonder where is the freedom where is the justice

What crime did we commit?

No one is read their rights. It’s not explained why they’re detained

Americans young old from all backgrounds and colors
dragged with plastic handcuffs on their wrists

Thousands arrested when we protest and resist

Someone’s forgotten my first amendment rights

Someone’s forgotten my right to free assembly

Someone has forgotten this is a democracy

The 99% reach out and rise from a flicker on Wall Street
to a flame burning through our countries main streets to
around the world north south west and east

Hear the sound of marching feet to defeat the elite

We protest against the bankers’ bailouts

We protest against foreclosed homes

Our outrageous student loans

Against our working homeless

We stand against big money in politics

We demand healthcare for the poor who are sick

We amass to stand against corporate greed

We chant for freedom from poverty for those in need

The police come in the dead of night and rip
down our protest signs

They rip down tents and tarps

They trash thousands of library books

They herd us with horses to force us to change
our marching courses

spray us with mace,

fence us in with blockades

The right wing money controlled media turns a blind eye

What is their reply?

Will you sit idly by?

What is the future for our children in this economy?

This country is full of irony

We condemn other countries for limiting freedom of speech

but can’t see our own hypocrisy

Corporations are not people

We need a country that is equal

So mic check this nation

Let the unions take to the streets

Demonstrate a strike

Let us close down ports in Oakland California New York and Florida

Demonstrate in the streets of D.C.

Occupy Wall Street close down the stock exchange

We are the 99 percent screaming it’s time for a change.