ON THE FRONT LINES

How does one prepare 

for cyber warfare?

There are no longer fronts

where soldiers block the way

onto civilian grounds of safety.

We are all on the front; 

dependent upon technology

for gas and electricity,

for information and news

which could keep us safe

to stay in place.

How do we connect

with family, friends, police,

fire houses, doctors and EMTs,

and get help in an emergency ?

How do we get food on shelves

when distribution channels 

get entangled  with cyber bullets?

How do we bring water out of taps

when treatment plants are trapped

by foreign intervention

of service connection?

Cyber warfare is a world war.

It has already begun.

Prepare for it to get worse.

There is  nowhere to run.

Cyber bullets do not replace

bullets made of lead,

nor rockets, missiles and tanks.

Cyber bullets are simply new

ways to injure, maim and kill.

We are all on the front lines.

The cyber siege has begun.

There is nowhere to run.

We are all on the front.

Worse, the enemy is also within

our congress, state legislatures and courts,

the propaganda machine

of the right-wing Republican Party

funded by American oligarchs,

media-blitzed krieged by FOX 

and other talking point right-wingers,

with fingers in the pie

of democratic institutions.

Such patriots of greed hide

in plain sight

cheered with delight

by MAGA white male supremacists

who use Trump as their poster boy,

inciting and inviting

secession from democracy

in favor of autocracy.

We are all on the front.