the internet applied on a personal scale, the world wide web, be it as small as a circle of friends, but the same idea, of information linked from place to place, where data and news travels from a source, a point of introduction, an infection site maybe, where i hear a story from someone, and then relay that info to others in my data net. except, what happens when the information comes so fast and so furious, or at least at a pace i'm unable to keep up, where i lose track of the source, where the byline has gone buh bye, and suddenly, a story has no teller, except me, but i'm merely a messenger, and the data goes unchecked, takes sometimes an unnecessary trip back to its source, or even information flow that's supposed to be limited, damned, controlled like rent or the colorado river, and it's supposed to pool, and deepen, and trees and fish and boaters populate the data mine. but the circuit switches sometimes fail, the audit trail recedes in the distance, and i'm left with words, words from others, words from friends, words from me