A Rhyming Ditty to Help Seniors Remember To Not Fall for Spam! Jill

[jill stockinger]

Yes, this is for our Thursday, June 8 discussion.

As the subject line indicates, I wrote this to help seniors to remember to not fall for Spam!

Jill

SPAM

 

                by Jill Stockinger

     

If it was not spam, I would own

an Apple watch, a set of silver cutlery,

a Dyson vacuum cleaner,

the Grand Prize of a lottery 

in Ireland (which I never entered)

and many other things, all lovely.

 

Such promised “gifting” 

should be trusted no more

than an evil witch’s words in fairy tales;

we must treat such words with scorn.

Evil is all around us,

just as those stories warned,

and these days, it’s packaged inside

the email we call spam.

 

(And by the way, 

despite what that message may say,

there is no Nigerian prince 

asking for our help today,

and if you're called 

by phone to make sudden bail,

— there is no grandchild

languishing in some jail.)

 

This is not someone being funny.

Simply put, it’s all a plot 

to take from us

what we have got

and they have not—

our money.

 

So it is important for us

to use the delete key diligently,

with no peeking first; opening spam

enables hidden malware to be 

installed and then we accidentally spread

a destructive virus, hurting friends and family!