Framed found poem

How to eat a guava; Esmeralda Santiago; page 543

A ripe guava is yellow

The skin is thick, firm, and sweet

When you bite into a ripe guava, your teeth must grip the bumpy surface

You grimace

Your eyes water

Your cheeks disappear as your lips purse into a tight O

You have another, then another

Enjoying the crunchy sounds

The acid taste

The gritty texture of the unripe center

A green guava is sour and hard

You hear the skin, meat, and seeds crunching inside your head

While the inside of your mouth explodes in little spurts of sour

The guava joins its sister under the harsh florescent light of the exotic fruit display

I push mine away

Toward the apples and pears of my adulthood

Their nearly seedless ripeness predictable and bittersweet  

Can we expect digital privacy? Though the government is tracking our calls and text messages, they only care about who, when, and where.

In the article "NSA's phone snooping a different kind of creepy", it states, "... Not simply broadcast our phone calls, but our physical locations, our movement, or interest..." This shows that they don't care about the content of the text message, email, or phone call. They only care about who, when, and where. Another example from the text is, "Nobody cares about the reasons why people do certain things. They only need to be able to predict the future." I guess accessing the data in our phone will help with that.

Others may argue and say we lose our liberty when we lose our privacy. "The Eternal value of privacy", they state, "Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is "liberty versus control."" Privacy is a basic human right and need. People
are always afraid of being under constant threat of correction, judgment, and criticism.

The CNN Article, "How does US data collect affect me?", states, "US officials acknowledge collecting domestic telephone records." This is stating the specific data being collected within the US. This means they record all phone calls but only pay attention to the ones collecting domestic telephone records. The government uses many resources to find the data they need, "...Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Apple... audio, video chat, photograph, email, documents." They access all these things to get the data they need. "The telephone records go into a data. They cant be accessed unless a judge gives approval in a national security investigation." This means that not just anyone can access any file.

All winter break, I stayed home. After the last bell rang, signaling the ending of the school day, I hopped happily on to the rusty, squeaky bus. Once I opened the large, thick door to my house, I felt a burst of relief. Inhaling the vanilla aroma, I looked around the dining room. Near the entrance is a water cooler, gently vibrating. Next to that were water bottles, neatly stacked along a big glass window. To the right of that, there's a deep freezer, chilling everything inside of it. In the center of the room, there's a wooden black table, surrounded by chairs of the same texture and color. The table is decorated with rectangular black mats and a napkin holder and salt and pepper shakers. At the end of the dining room, there's a kitchen. Inside said kitchen is a nice black refrigerator with bumpy texture, yet soft to the touch. A black microwave compliments it, along with a small black and white dishwasher sulking in the corner. A white stove and over sits in the center to the left, decorated with a silverware holder placed in the middle.