Character Recognition

Character Recognition

It’s getting harder to prove you’re not a robot
to the computer. You can robot-proof
your website by warping the text like wrought
iron, twisting it. The troubled youths
of the internet have robot brains. They want
to sell you pills to enhance your desire
or suffocate your appetite. Their words haunt
comments sections, and to your entire
list of contacts, they offer a link to a video
of a teenage girl. There is no clip,
just a virus, a girl. The robot keeps a photo
of her to show around, a silver lip
ring, Bettie Page bangs, two sparrows inked
beneath her collarbones. He plasters
the internet with her photo and a bogus link
that leads back to him. He posts faster
and faster when he thinks of her, the copies
mean more beauty. Her pixels glow
more radiantly than others, he types, http://,
but thinks, Click Here NOW, sparrow.