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lunarchick - 05:57am Feb 14, 2001 EST (#279 of 281)
lunarchick@www.com

Junk me?

You and
I are
enigma
cloaked in
mystery
-- coded.

lunarchick - 07:03am Feb 14, 2001 EST (#280 of 281)
lunarchick@www.com

Genome

rshowalter - 07:18am Feb 14, 2001 EST (#281 of 281)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

We'll show
That even when you try
To communicate "in clear"
It ain't easy


And to eavesdrop ..
so you're sure of what you heard
IS IMPOSSIBLE ! ! ! !

People are too afraid
to "give themselves away"
and so erect walls
static defenses of lies

Clear's safer !
If you're talking in clear
and overheard by someone who doesn't know
the unspoken stuff

They'll say, "Couldn't attack these folks"
"They know their territory -- they'd
wrong foot me in a minute

"But I do see enough, to know this for sure"
"Just now, they ain't attacking me."

Just the thing both sides need to know
to step back from destruction.

. . . .
Clear's safer !
We got e-mail transcripts, as demos
that prove it .

Anybody wanna see?
Some CIA folks saw those e-mails
with my permission,
and my partner's, too
I think maybe they backed off a little bit
after they saw them.


a lot more people
ought to know
how safe it is
to send in CLEAR

If more folks knew
we could all lie less
learn more
and have more fun.

In clear: Lying is more dangerous than people think, and soaks up more attention than people know. We can do less of it. We can send in clear - the message, almost always, will be peaceful. And complex cooperation, now so often terminated with deceptive sequences, could happen more often.

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