Iffy

Iffy:
that corner cameras capture your likeness daily
or make you a surveillance movie star.
Or that your mobile phone is more likely
than your wife to know exactly where you are.

Iffy:
that your DNA is kept without your knowledge
and that your passport details now contain your essence
to protect you from someone who has a dozen
documents to hide his dangerous cleanskin presence.

Iffy:
that the technology of the UAV needs practice
every day through congested London flight paths
and the data for Google Earth with the picture
of your house comes direct from military COMSATs.

Iffy:
that you are just a digital drone in binary
or hexadecimal strings in no way sinking
in the tide of information but instantly available
before a light emitting diode’s finished blinking.