News Spooler to the World,
	W4R3Z Poster, Hacker of Root,
	Player with Switched Hubs and the Nation's Data Handler,
	Stormy, husky, brawling,
	Network of the Big Lusers:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your
 painted women in the animated GIFs luring the schoolboys.
They tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen
 the spammers spam and go free to spam again.
They tell me you are brutal and my reply is: In the .sigs of women and
 children I have seen the marks of wanton flamage.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my
 network, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another network with lifted head singing so proud to
 be alive and linked and routed and running,
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a
 tall bold slugger set vivid among the little soft networks;
Fierce as a self-proclaimed netcop with tongue lapping for action,
 cunning as a W4R3Z D00D pitted against the sysadmins,
	Bare copper,
	dig(1)ing,
	Crashing,
	Planning,
	Routing, black-holing, rerouting,
Under the line noise, ping packets all over his routes, laughing with
 filtered interfaces,
Under the terrible burden of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* laughing as
 a big disk laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant netadmin laughs who has never lost a
 server,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his
 ribs is the heart of the network,
			      Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-coded,
 swapping, proud to be News Spooler, W4R3Z Poster, Hacker of Root, Player
 with Switched Hubs and Data Handler to the Nation. 
	- "Internet"  Tue Jan 20 02:21:01 EST 1998
	  Benjamin D. Hutchins, with apologies to Carl Sandburg