one thought and one slaved on a poem all day
to make sure that zero cash boy got his way
two rhymes in each verse, then doom nine would be free
to transmit hot numbers and letters like D.

the problem became one of coding and law.
how should we store numbers like seven and four?
a cry for attention like raving on E?
or in cruciform couplets in stanzas of three?

not five minutes later the scam came to me
upbraiding my head like a sting from a B
(to watch hi-def movies us plebs have to wait
for kind hearted hex digits like D and eight).

when four score guerilla net-copyfight peers
defied movie barons it gave one ideas
because of the cease and desist crap i strive
to wrap up in word-art real numbers like five

the copyright system’s too broken to fix
so I’ll abuse fair use it and hit it for six.
i’ll hopefully make it quite tricky to C
all five methods used to hide data for thee.

the first is that literal numbers like six
are those that i want to make clear, without tricks.
so all spelled-out numbers you read here like three
form numeric parts of the processing key.

the second is that reading numbers alone
will only give half of the secret that’s known
to five or six cluebat-armed rollin’-deep mates
who want you to know that there’s a pair of eights.

the third method’s somewhat less easy to C:
you just take all capital letters, agree?
so sentences with zero caps at the start
are just to be clear, not to make it like art.