Today's poem is by Tina Kelley

Lessons from the List of 100,000 Most Hacked Passwords
        —what God said after reading the whole thing

Oh my me! If only I had made you more imaginative.
Next upgrade, you need ten times the terabytes
of ingenuity, and boosted self-preservation too.
If you loved yourselves as I love you, sweet dim ones,

would you type in 123456 to crack every nest egg?
Number 14, after qwerty and password, is iloveyou,
which increases my faith in you. But how’s yours in me?
There are 138 mentions of Jesus, but twice as many f*&%s.

368 have sex in them, including sexgod. I much prefer
glory2god and love4god, and appreciate how godgod1
ranks above ilovenookie1, if by one. 1,512 uses of love,
116 hates, including the hate in whatever. Tons o sucks.

Monkey ranks 19, dragon 20. Coming in at 37 out of 100,000?
Tinkle. No idea why. My favorite is the pilgrim, supplicant,
who tries to avoid red letter scolding and reset: letmein.
You, my lowercase meek one, get admitted to paradise.

The rest of you, pick one that reminds you to be better
every time you pay your bills or check your balances.
Make it a prayer, a remembrance of your favorite departed.
More than hackthis1. Maybe something, once, about joy?

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from Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission