Apologia for Contributing to the Big Data Police State

I thought I could soften my body's decay with castille soap,
leave-in conditioner, coconut oil.

Despite my best efforts, winter still arrives to chip away at me.

My dust settles on every surface, later gets stuck in my vacuum filter,
which I never empty.

Other filters I'm caught up in include:

—through which I have been reliably labeled as between 13 & 54
years of age, German-speaking,

& interested in the following # selected items:

—all of which I definitely have heard of, consumed, & enjoy.

Though they only listed Mariska Hargitay /mar-ISH-ka HAR-ggi-tay/ once.

Acxiom can have those for free if they read my book.

Or choose to pay for them again to sell to other data brokers & startups,
who will sell to Twitter & back to Acxiom.

Which I understand is a viable & profitable business model.

The older I get, the more I am reflected. Or do I mean contained?

Just when I was worried about self-actualization, I find my potential
collected & parsed

in a JSON file, my risk to a healthcare provider
factored.

I am consumable, I can be purchased by literally any bidder,

with the rest of America's vibrant 13–54 demo. I am here,
& everywhere else too, and

I am an asset.

You can download a static site of the data that Twitter has collected from you (More > Settings > Your Account > "Download an archive of your data").
For all the legitimate concerns about privacy & who profits off your personal information, we can also acknowledge that, at least for now, data brokers & the entities that buy from & sell to them are doing an extremly poor job of categorizing us.
Yes, several identical categories appeared in my archive—most of which I did not include here.