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Tom Watts lives and works in south-east London. His poetry has been published in Equilibrium Magazine, Remark, Plus-Que-Parfait, Streetcake Magazine, zimZalla, and a chapbook is forthcoming on The Arthur Shilling Press. Away from poetry, he writes reviews for Rabbit Hole Urban Music, and his short story 'Wasps' was long-listed for the 2010 Fish Short Story Prize. He is currently grappling man to man with his first novel. So far the novel is winning. He is fascinated by the accidental glimpse of the internet that broken coding provides. When, like the bones of a busted umbrella, the facade of the internet is ripped away and it's scaffolding revealed, it always has the appearance of a chaotic randomness. It is in fact the opposite as every letter, symbol, and mark must be in exactly the right place for the code to work. This is demonstrated beautifully by the probably simple error of composition that has caused the site or blog to malfunction and blurt out the ugly piece of code. < t h e e n d / a >