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Sonnets From Other Lives: the Subject

The CCTV camera at the mall
at thirteen thirty seven indicates
he’s roughly five foot seven or so tall.
In the ATM shot you can see his face
& environmental propaganda
on his t-shirt. His browsing history
tells us he plays online games & has a
mild interest in pornography.
Once or twice a week he will go jogging,
(three point seven miles—Google Earth).
For the last six months he has been blogging
about his politics. For what it’s worth,
we’d like more data than what we have here so
we can process his whole life as ones & zeros.