The electric
grid has been hacked,
shouts the
Washington Post headline
(in early
January 2017)
by the Russians,
no less, says
an outgoing
Administration official,
unnamed,
anonymous, in a sign
of things to
come. The Russians
hacked their way
in through Vermont,
past the maple
syrup and Volvos
and old Bernie
yard signs,
weathering in
defiance.
Except they
didn’t, actually,
the Russians, I
mean. The alleged hack
was an employee
laptop malwared but
never plugged to
the grid, everyone
forgetting that
utilities tend to pay
attention to
these things these days.
The unnamed
outgoing Administration
Official slips
back into the shadows.
Later, the Post stuffs the rabbit back
into the hat,
quietly corrects the story
without calling
attention to it and
certainly makes
no mention of the error.
It’s sufficient
that the damage is done.
It’s the new
journalism.
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