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#surveillance
exhibitionist and ****** are linked by common need. the people of outer, inner Los Angeles live in houses with huge windows; they cruise one another insolently, unafraid of being watched as they watch; privacy is meaningless—there is only the sexiness of endless scrutiny and quick encounter. he feels the heat, the balance between absorbed and emitted. the camera captures the changing blood flow in her skin. she scatters and absorbs far less than him. consumed within roots of coincidence, the invisible her comes out through his lens; and it reveals the world as it truly behaves, not as it merely appears.
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 2:38 PM UTC
Connections in Infrared
I’ve heard their lies. I heard them all. I read the names carved in the wall. I saw the soldiers clear the hall and sort the shoes by size. I ate. I worked. The day was long. I learned the nation’s favored song. I signed my name. I moved along and left you there in hunger I went to find the name I sold. I walked at night between the folds. and there were phantoms on the road who died in ash and wanting. I traded bread, I looked for clues, seeking victims I could use. I stole a coat that you would choose and wore it through the winter. I spread the map across the ground, the river bend where you were found. I knelt beside your fallen gown. I'd lost my only witness. I'm taking back my broken life, my spoon, my tin, my sacred night, the hand I’ll need to gently write my song of ash and wanting. They haven’t found me. Never will. Footsteps silent. Breath so still to move through shadows, choose the hills. A ledger line is there to fill the name of one surviving.
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Jan 11
Jan 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM UTC
Ash and Wanting
I tell myself, can't see ahead, But my path is already drawn? A narrow line in antiseptic light that runs from dusk to dawn. Each morning bleeds from yesterday through walls too white to stain, and prophecy is nothing more than habit dressed as chain. I wake inside a measured room, where padded corners bloom, and silence hums fluorescent hymns against a vacant tune. Who decides what sane is? Who writes the rules for me? If healing feels like suffocating, is that recovery? You call this safety, call it care I call it slowly dying. Tie my hands, dim the lights, but you can’t stop me trying. A canvas binds my restless arms, fabric biting skin; they say it’s for protection I say it cages what’s within. Once I held a voice so clear like winter in the air, now it shatters into swallowed glass and settles into prayer. Save me, smiling martyr, step down from polished wood; your halo shines in sterile light it does me little good. Who decides what sane is? Who names me unwell? If I don’t fit your diagnosis, am I broken — or rebel? You crown yourselves as cures while I am tied in shame. Don’t tell me I am better just because you need the claim. Your Eyes blink in corners of every fragile day, watching lest I fracture or quietly slip away. Rats of thought inside the walls scratch along the seams; they gnaw at former purposes until they feel like dreams. They ask me, will you take the pills? Will you say you’re ill? Will you trade your jagged truth for something easier to fill? Who decides what sane is? What if the system’s wrong? What if the thing that claims to heal is what’s been choking all along? You can catalogue and keep me, file me, lock me still but something in me will not die, and something never will.
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Feb 9
Feb 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM UTC
Antiseptic lights
I tell myself, can't see ahead, But my path is already drawn? A narrow line in antiseptic light that runs from dusk to dawn. Each morning bleeds from yesterday through walls too white to stain, and prophecy is nothing more than habit dressed as chain. I wake inside a measured room, where padded corners bloom, and silence hums fluorescent hymns against a vacant tune. Who decides what sane is? Who writes the rules for me? If healing feels like suffocating, is that recovery? You call this safety, call it care I call it slowly dying. Tie my hands, dim the lights, but you can’t stop me trying. A canvas binds my restless arms, fabric biting skin; they say it’s for protection I say it cages what’s within. Once I held a voice so clear like winter in the air, now it shatters into swallowed glass and settles into prayer. Save me, smiling martyr, step down from polished wood; your halo shines in sterile light it does me little good. Who decides what sane is? Who names me unwell? If I don’t fit your diagnosis, am I broken — or rebel? You crown yourselves as cures while I am tied in shame. Don’t tell me I am better just because you need the claim. Your Eyes blink in corners of every fragile day, watching lest I fracture or quietly slip away. Rats of thought inside the walls scratch along the seams; they gnaw at former purposes until they feel like dreams. They ask me, will you take the pills? Will you say you’re ill? Will you trade your jagged truth for something easier to fill? Who decides what sane is? What if the system’s wrong? What if the thing that claims to heal is what’s been choking all along? You can catalogue and keep me, file me, lock me still but something in me will not die, and something never will.
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I learned, this morning, that my Grandmère’s tiny, designer tote is a ferriday bag. Mary, Mary, are you worried? What does your browser know? Your clicks, your likes your secret midnight swipes, are those things others should know? What about the things you buy, the posts you read, your favorite feeds, the secrets you type, then backspace zap, are tracked, like the buttons you tap. Your ephemeral searches, the links you try, uneraseable, without the reasons why. It stores your trail, reads your mail, with ever watchful digital eyes. Mary, Mary, have a cookie. What does your cell phone track? The trips you plan, the maps you scan, your location with accuracy GPS, friends you text, the songs you select. The news you read for ‘free,’ the streams you prefer to see. Our gadgets know our rhythms and feed the hungry algorithms which sell our interests bit by bit, and tweak the clever, coded rules that predictively model your moves before they’re consciously known to you pushing that valuable data to Internet databases. Mary, Mary, quite uneasy, what do your gadgets do? they connect you to the world and the world to you, They tease and ****** you but they also **** you. Those apps - with your permission - watch and listen to things you say, people you know and places you go. . . Songs for this: Cookie by NewJeans Private Eyes - the bird and the bee
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Jan 19
Jan 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM UTC
Mary Mary
Weighted For home, to see any fated Light, and its heart...? Worth without, a coping all to start...? So, waited... Has a view, of harmony sated An inclining deem of reason... Sat in a heat's shadow, to endure a desire's season? Quiet forces Witnessing, an acquiring sense of worsens... Has the youth, for are's demonstration Poignancy and burden, love, precisely my notion... The awakening sun Promising any moment with the truth, won Twain is a parables pardon For what cares love, has become... The sanctified night? With almost, the belly of always, right... Sense of a serious less, given a sighs guest to many ways Are we to dance well under the stars, if a shine of liberty, mays?
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May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM UTC
I Watched A Scorpion, Wait On Me
"Once he is within our custody, we shall take his life. He shall be, henceforth, survived only by the image that stains my CCTV screen." Security is no longer watching the CCTV; No longer watching the purchase of a rice pouch; No longer pulsating in a sterile environment, Simultaneously monitoring an image that was never on tape; Focusing, so deeply, on a soul that was never on tape. So deeply fixated on those who have committed a crime; Those who are substantially unblemished by sunlight; Those who are continuously touched by our Heavenly Father's sight; Those who possess an artifice of the Sea Horn which was not originally their own; Those who unceasingly scale onyx towers draped in a filthy government skin, Waving pure flags against the night.
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Feb 22, 2023
Feb 22, 2023 at 8:41 AM UTC
Citizen's Arrest
I’m over Siri-ous, I’m over-charging, My screen time is up, My audio levels are up, I was watching **** again, I’m searching stupid things, I’m not closing all my circles, I haven’t walked long enough, I don’t stand at all the right times, I may be an online shopping ****** I’m spending too much time on Tiktok, My heart jumps around the wrong guys, I’m looking at bright screens late at night, I’m getting too many calories from cocktails, I’m not taking full advantage of my subscriptions, I need to upgrade my hardware, software and my attitude.
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Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022 at 11:07 AM UTC
by my iDevices I am judged
All around campus there are these little black ***** like hanging alien eggs. Glossy, obsidian bubbles concealing cameras that record time-stamped, audio and hi-def video. Could this surveillance footage ever be sent to parents? Imagining letters sent to parents about campus/dorm surveillance Dear Mr & Mrs Vionet, we have observed countless kisses, disheveled morning walks and late night visits which indicate that your daughter is a scandalous little ***** We just wanted you to know, in case you want to know more. As campus security it’s part of our business to keep a full, digital record, detailing her sluttiness. Your friends in campus security. P.S. Would you care to donate to the University endowment fund?
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Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022 at 8:17 AM UTC
the black bubbles
~ *There's trouble in Alphaville: Caution in the taxi, "I am on a journey to the end of the night." Remember to silence love when sneaking Sally thru the alley. There's always one too many wives on the same wavelength. Seeing is believing in the cold ultraviolet light of a long, warm lens. And naturally "How to Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow" is all checked out at the local library.* ~
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Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021 at 6:59 PM UTC
Quite Frankly, Infared
From the veil of trees, I can peer into your window, and count the family, imagine them gone to bed, dreaming of blue, "underwater, unaware." Those summer evaporations tickle my skin, bring on such an observational itch: how you, freshly out of the pool, bloomed brightly on Betamax.
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Dec 20, 2020
Dec 20, 2020 at 10:42 AM UTC
Watching the Wildlife
Some old movie plots can't happen now, with changes in technology... You know, in a movie when someone texts everyone at school by mistake? Who has EVERYONE at school on their contacts list? No way that happens. Parent-less parties where scores show up - with modern surveillance systems? or ditching class, heck my parents are texted my quiz scores real-time. "why'd you get an 88 on that Calculus test, I thought you studied?" Argh!
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Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020 at 7:02 AM UTC
plots
Don't look at me Stare straight ahead The camera sees And hears what's said Fear 'Little' Brother' In the phone for when Everything's discovered You turned you in Bots with your social Your facebooked look And alexiacon vocals Read you like a book It was you but only you Who fed 'Big Data' bots Letting trackers through Accessing all you got Surveillance in any hand A.I. genies in all reflections Takes itself from every man Knowing every direction Losing a piece of me Is losing a piece of you If you come close you see You're a chess piece too
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Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 at 10:22 AM UTC
“Look Away”
three husbands three wifes don't try to find 'em as they will have found you long before nighttime somewhen in-between-time yeah baby i know it's fighttime but don't try to opppose your destiny as you've been watched by satellites / surveillance cams / your friends and your aunts they're not against you yet none of 'em is gonna thank you for nothin' you feel me? believe it or don't: by the end of the year YOU gonna say: thank you welcome to the you-place
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Nov 30, 2019
Nov 30, 2019 at 11:50 AM UTC
The You-Place
Profusely thanking their gods and goddesses when striking it big Slinking silently from the table when losing it all But ever faithful to their capricious gods Never ever seeing the ever seeing eye Or the hidden algorithms Calculated to lure you again and again To play and pay for the thrills That by Chance you're the gods' favoured one.
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Aug 15, 2019
Aug 15, 2019 at 10:02 AM UTC
Casino
The Kekropolis you built. Just thinking about you makes me feel odd. You always come as a psyop, implemented and fake. I scream a thousand voices to you. Every time i see you, my knees clutch. You are not for real. I mustn't speak. There are others here, on my mind, on my paper. Leaving behind a ****** trail of despair and sadness. I won't let it affect me. I'd scream again if i knew you were here. Not involved in psyops. Not connected to cops. Not handling guys. Not wearing disguise. I'd care if it wasn't all artificially implemented, I'd come hadn't you texted. The deep state of a messed-up.
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Jun 9, 2019
Jun 9, 2019 at 5:13 PM UTC
Deep State
Do you ever Google? I heard they call you "USERS"; I mean, do you care? Our lives are now viral, a flush of the toilet, a death-summoning spiral. Funnels of sheer torment, Kirsten Stewarts pretty hair, ...it's like noone's even really there. All locked in a block of info, only CIA's aware. Some weird files to share, locked up in a cloud. Do these clouds rain on men? Do they make them run? Summon a sea of umbrellas beneath? It's a sea of despair, and was meant to be fun, worthy of a stare, here and there. Now all gone. But to have lives abolished in shame... Is it a game? A Facebook event? Do we just pretend? No way to explain, Not even a gain.
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Jun 8, 2019
Jun 8, 2019 at 3:07 AM UTC
Google, You Little *****
Surveillance is the cornerstone to my dictatorship Over your life I hold you firmly with my invader's grip To create strife To spread fear among the vigilant citizens And make you feel like you're not fitting in It's all part of my devious plan To trap you in my surveillance van I've got owls perched in trees And satellites floating in space Pictures make the world freeze So I can see your pretty face I start to drone on and on Your indifferent mouth yawns You spy on the clock Waiting for me to stop You stare through me The way I stare into your house Hell is 200 degrees When you find your lovely spouse She doesn't have my pictures She hasn't read your scripture I must've gotten my information wrong I thought my surveillance was strong My mistakes rule me with an iron fist And they throw me in prison I thought I could live in surveillance bliss But this isn't the life I envisioned
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Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 at 5:55 AM UTC
Surveillance
Imagine With faith, You said, You could help to Address the problem On getting colder You have to write Note on sudden death Who is to blame? Sins of ancient rites? The last breath? Behind the Bars All shouting at you All pointing at you
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Sep 2, 2018
Sep 2, 2018 at 10:06 PM UTC
Surveillance
*why are there cameras everywhere I go? what are they recording? what are they watching? why are they watching us?* why are there cameras in every room? why are they recording everything we do? why are they watching the things I do? & when was my debut? (be careful, they're watching you too)
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Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 12:27 PM UTC
watched