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"surveillance" poems
(from “A Love Song” by William Carlos Williams) <•> familiar that apple google and amazon have me under 24 hour surveillance e-specially now as I am in their geosphere of influence but sending me a love poem of WCWs that isolates my locale, my intended inebriation status, and is addressed to me personally (“you”), that’s just creepy so charged am I, obligated to oblige, to counter-compose a love song of mine own, under the pinot “influence,” (in a manner of speaking) which a love taught me to love what if, a new love song ecrit, to an old and loverly land, a woman-land designed to be desired, no difference - kissing a new girl first time, a wet and unforgettable compote when falling on the neck of your one beloved anew renewed now I tremble-tread for the line of great predecessors, “the land lover scribes” skilled in natures homaging, is like a line out the door, around the corner as if a new flavor ice cream has just been isolated and mined and I... <•> *I, but a novitiate in a far away, wild untamed world where my nature taken by her nature cannot deny paying my just due: selvage late middle English, from self + edge how perfect! “an edge, woven on a fabric during manufacture, intended to prevent unraveling” the pacific coast air the irregular shoreline - expanding/receding, god’s own forestry reserve, the cascades, a goal on the horizon, country roads where ancient wheat stalks grow wild all a tonic intermingled, an alcohol to imbibe through mouth nostrils eyes and skin all will be my own selvage! preventing the eastern unraveling disease, a nearly incurable permafrost low grade kate spaded infection, brought along with me for decades, my loon June companion, now stalling out, lost from my happy head a vineyard on every corner, marijuana growing next door, rivers that change like children growing up and down, cheek to jowled property line live the berries and the hazelnut groves, god’s hay bales wrapped in plastic like marshmallows dotting the landscape* all daring you to say I could love it  here
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Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC
Songs of Oregon: No. 3 “you, far off there, under the wine-red selvage of the west!”
(from “A Love Song” by William Carlos Williams) <•> familiar that apple google and amazon have me under 24 hour surveillance e-specially now as I am in their geosphere of influence but sending me a love poem of WCWs that isolates my locale, my intended inebriation status, and is addressed to me personally (“you”), that’s just creepy so charged am I, obligated to oblige, to counter-compose a love song of mine own, under the pinot “influence,” (in a manner of speaking) which a love taught me to love what if, a new love song ecrit, to an old and loverly land, a woman-land designed to be desired, no difference - kissing a new girl first time, a wet and unforgettable compote when falling on the neck of your one beloved anew renewed now I tremble-tread for the line of great predecessors, “the land lover scribes” skilled in natures homaging, is like a line out the door, around the corner as if a new flavor ice cream has just been isolated and mined and I... <•> *I, but a novitiate in a far away, wild untamed world where my nature taken by her nature cannot deny paying my just due: selvage late middle English, from self + edge how perfect! “an edge, woven on a fabric during manufacture, intended to prevent unraveling” the pacific coast air the irregular shoreline - expanding/receding, god’s own forestry reserve, the cascades, a goal on the horizon, country roads where ancient wheat stalks grow wild all a tonic intermingled, an alcohol to imbibe through mouth nostrils eyes and skin all will be my own selvage! preventing the eastern unraveling disease, a nearly incurable permafrost low grade kate spaded infection, brought along with me for decades, my loon June companion, now stalling out, lost from my happy head a vineyard on every corner, marijuana growing next door, rivers that change like children growing up and down, cheek to jowled property line live the berries and the hazelnut groves, god’s hay bales wrapped in plastic like marshmallows dotting the landscape* all daring you to say I could love it  here
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She's like a drama queen, Plays the 'blame game' like a loser, Fair minded as a bigot, Wages war like drones, As free as surveillance, As open as privatized prisons, As equal as feudalism, As rich as the beggar masses, Bankrupt as homeowners, Socialist as the military, Truthful, trustful as "NEWS," as propaganda, Pagan as the manufactured Goddess 'Columbia,' Christian as the stingy, Pious as a sinner, Wicked as securities, exchanges on 'Wall Street,' Insecure as an empire, Greedy as a fast food glutton, As brave as a fool, Warmongering as a chicken hawk politician, Machevellian as a coward, As rigged as the free market, As selfish as Capitalism, As tolerant as Islam, Beautiful as a clear cut forest, Charming as a strip mall, Forward thinking as chaos, Lawless as congress, United as a belligerent crowd, Compassionate as a swat team, Green as any petrochemical company, Organic as pollution, Deep as a strip mine  .  .  .   .  .  .
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 7:53 PM UTC
Similes for America
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM UTC
Erosion
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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Trash can, wastebasket; the place we throw it all away. Used tissues--soggy mascara, dried ***** or the babies that would never be, and the heaps of food waste, human waste. Wasted human. Why do we take ourselves and the people we used to love, toss people and our person deep within a hole of shame, darkness, misery, guilt, worry, frustration, fear? If someone only said to you, or to me, when we dig deep into the ground and find the place no one will find us or them, the people we are burying-- if they only said, "You are not trash." Our emotions refuse to become refuse, the remains of being unwanted, as we perceive ourselves to be. But we is just me, and even though I can't hear the voice I long to hear above my own, the sounds reverberate in my chest, next to my heart, where I heard them last. The last time we spoke your fingers did not reach for mine. Your jeans did not rip in the same one spot. The dog that I picked that you picked after you went back, his tail wagging all the way on the ride back to his new home, did not kiss my face and my eyes and ears like he loves to do. Even though you didn't still love me, you did before, now thrown hastily, yet decidedly in the trash can outside your door. I dropped off the last remnant of your physical being, an old rabbit-eared antennae. I didn't, couldn't look in your trash can, or stand in the driveway longer than was needed to drop and run the hell away from crumbling gravel, a window newly aluminum foiled, and the motorcycle kept under surveillance at all times. I hope he looked on his camera screen and saw walking, talking, feeling, breathing human trash gliding down the sidewalk, feet pattering into a jog. The grass licked my feet and tangled in my toes on the way to the one place my sighs could sink lower than my feet, deep into the warm upholstery of my car seat, the grandma car, the dented, imperfect, but mostly reliable car away, far away, to a place where someone would look curiously, pick up the trash, my trash, me, and say, "It's beautiful."
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 12:04 AM UTC
trash panda
Trash can, wastebasket; the place we throw it all away. Used tissues--soggy mascara, dried ***** or the babies that would never be, and the heaps of food waste, human waste. Wasted human. Why do we take ourselves and the people we used to love, toss people and our person deep within a hole of shame, darkness, misery, guilt, worry, frustration, fear? If someone only said to you, or to me, when we dig deep into the ground and find the place no one will find us or them, the people we are burying-- if they only said, "You are not trash." Our emotions refuse to become refuse, the remains of being unwanted, as we perceive ourselves to be. But we is just me, and even though I can't hear the voice I long to hear above my own, the sounds reverberate in my chest, next to my heart, where I heard them last. The last time we spoke your fingers did not reach for mine. Your jeans did not rip in the same one spot. The dog that I picked that you picked after you went back, his tail wagging all the way on the ride back to his new home, did not kiss my face and my eyes and ears like he loves to do. Even though you didn't still love me, you did before, now thrown hastily, yet decidedly in the trash can outside your door. I dropped off the last remnant of your physical being, an old rabbit-eared antennae. I didn't, couldn't look in your trash can, or stand in the driveway longer than was needed to drop and run the hell away from crumbling gravel, a window newly aluminum foiled, and the motorcycle kept under surveillance at all times. I hope he looked on his camera screen and saw walking, talking, feeling, breathing human trash gliding down the sidewalk, feet pattering into a jog. The grass licked my feet and tangled in my toes on the way to the one place my sighs could sink lower than my feet, deep into the warm upholstery of my car seat, the grandma car, the dented, imperfect, but mostly reliable car away, far away, to a place where someone would look curiously, pick up the trash, my trash, me, and say, "It's beautiful."
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Breakfast The morning spins lazily out of the Universe’s black eye like a surveillance camera ************ my paranoia. I eat a small breakfast of toads and do my coughing exercises. In the cellar the flesh incinerator purrs for dinner and is only satisfied with one species of rare mammal. My exotic summer guests, strewn on the floor like pickup sticks, are becoming a burden, so I toss one in the furnace and hazily return to bed.
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Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 9:03 PM UTC
Outsider Poetry Breakfast
My bedroom is my prison. I am locked up with high surveillance. My guards watching my every move, yet somehow they see nothing. A place where misconduct is common, although the boss never sees. A cold, harsh feeling always present. Marks on the wall counting the days until i'm free. My bedroom is my prison. And there is no escaping until i'm out.
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Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 at 6:30 PM UTC
my prison
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
A fat girl's Thanksgiving is being told to pass on the pumpkin pie A fat girl's Thanksgiving is being scrutinized over everything you ingest A fat girl's Thanksgiving is being met with questions no matter what you eat or don't eat "Have some more potatoes, Sarah" "Haven't you had enough yet?" A fat girl's Thanksgiving is a double standard wrapped up In a pretty floral bow Just like the cornucopia in the table's center. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is a broken tradition fixated not on giving thanks But on her every movement in regards to her plate A fat girl's Thanksgiving is only eating half her helping A fat girl's Thanksgiving is throwing up each and every bite of it Into a porcelain garbage bin exactly thirteen minutes later A fat girl's Thanksgiving is perfecting a purge Stand up and lean Time it just right Dry heave first. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is the second to last time she sees her grandpa And she cannot even focus on family Because this disease has intertwined itself into the crevices of her mind A fat girl's Thanksgiving is her worst nightmare and her favorite holiday For she is constantly under surveillance But no one questions her habits that day So she is free to be sick as often as she likes. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is counting every calorie Knowing exactly how much she needs to compensate for every particle of food Polluting her system. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is shoving things into her body And immediately wanting them out While having the means to get rid of them. A fat girl's Thanksgiving has always been shared with her alter ego, Bulimia. A fat girl's Thanksgiving has always been a paradox Hopefully this year she will be able to go alone.
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 10:44 PM UTC
A Fat Girl's Thanksgiving
A fat girl's Thanksgiving is being told to pass on the pumpkin pie A fat girl's Thanksgiving is being scrutinized over everything you ingest A fat girl's Thanksgiving is being met with questions no matter what you eat or don't eat "Have some more potatoes, Sarah" "Haven't you had enough yet?" A fat girl's Thanksgiving is a double standard wrapped up In a pretty floral bow Just like the cornucopia in the table's center. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is a broken tradition fixated not on giving thanks But on her every movement in regards to her plate A fat girl's Thanksgiving is only eating half her helping A fat girl's Thanksgiving is throwing up each and every bite of it Into a porcelain garbage bin exactly thirteen minutes later A fat girl's Thanksgiving is perfecting a purge Stand up and lean Time it just right Dry heave first. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is the second to last time she sees her grandpa And she cannot even focus on family Because this disease has intertwined itself into the crevices of her mind A fat girl's Thanksgiving is her worst nightmare and her favorite holiday For she is constantly under surveillance But no one questions her habits that day So she is free to be sick as often as she likes. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is counting every calorie Knowing exactly how much she needs to compensate for every particle of food Polluting her system. A fat girl's Thanksgiving is shoving things into her body And immediately wanting them out While having the means to get rid of them. A fat girl's Thanksgiving has always been shared with her alter ego, Bulimia. A fat girl's Thanksgiving has always been a paradox Hopefully this year she will be able to go alone.
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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
vote for nobody because nobody cares that you're a wage-slave that healthcare is astronomical and college is unaffordable nobody tells the truth about global warming nobody gives a **** about smashing the patriarchy nobody understands that black lives matter and since nobody has an ounce of integrity it's in our own best interest to let nobody have all the power if nobody can stop the endless war and ubiquitous surveillance apparatus that subjects the world to invasive violations of privacy then i will give nobody my support nobody pledges allegiance to all brothers and sisters and organisms on planet Earth and feels the weight of each life crushed by the gears of capitalism nobody sits alone in the school cafeteria nobody begs for change on the front-steps of Goldman Sachs nobody pirouettes atop a Charging Bull nobody stares back at you in the mirror a vote for nobody is a vote for everyone
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Jan 24, 2016
Jan 24, 2016 at 12:22 AM UTC
nobody
Encephalon is the flagitious syndicate target To imprison the saintly and resistant population In the research agenda which is classified We are selected guinea pigs in a nightmare To the unethical secret operations Unknown to many, is the silent suffering Of isolated victims living amongst the community Satellite surveillance includes electromagnetic harassment That burning, thought stealing, control of limbs feeling I was done by the hoary Navy's sonar Poor dolphins washed up Cornwall's beach(1) After sonar echoed in my right lughole Mind control technology has evolved The community are recruited by false propaganda Thats the local police, council, library, not restricted to neighbours Old style Cointelpro is in play Discredited, slanders, and victim blaming Who can we share with but other targets Nobody asked which human is for "use" in trials?
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Jun 24, 2020
Jun 24, 2020 at 10:37 AM UTC
Targeted Individuals Poem
*we are witness to atrocities committed by regime over its peoples over time* 1. we are witness.. shattering glass of reality arranged into chosen shard-feeds like omni-gov surveillance into meticulous mind-grafts spluttering eternal-stats for public mind control spewing mini-truths of perpetual war raids disillusionment of history forever rewritten control supply-and-demand create dark-cloaked dilemma and monitor shortage and famine make-believe elements so well played to auto-frenzied latch thinking is degraded and actions.. well, less said 2. diligent and loyal yet harbour secret-hatred feed visions stilted by politrix deception and manipulation propaganda is the oleaginous-game by wand-over-mind totalitarian is the kingpin-holder of cards and yet, who is really being played! eternal marionettes on a conveyor-belt can't even play with yourself alone your **** your **** your every move.. watched - surveyed - and studied by that ubiquitous-bulge eye you cannot escape right opposite your low hard-bed you're broken into popping-parts that YOU won't recognise! thoughtcrime-police is gonna accost ya get up, comrade.. get UUUUUUUUP! 3. we are witness life-tube covered in darkened vapour-swirls we are witness children conditioned to watch their parents.. too closely we are witness truth so smothered, now re-fed by repeat-metaphor we are witness dictata.. dictata.. we are witness austere existence in a tacky one-room flat we are witness subsist on black-wheat and imitation-repast we are witness regurgitate the party-dialect on and on and on (after a while, we end up half-believing.. ) *only the clock which strikes thirteen can smell the charred-reality as leftover-truth is shoved into incendiary obsolescence* tick-a-damn-tock and that would be.. one S T - 26 sept
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 11:53 AM UTC
we are witness..
*we are witness to atrocities committed by regime over its peoples over time* 1. we are witness.. shattering glass of reality arranged into chosen shard-feeds like omni-gov surveillance into meticulous mind-grafts spluttering eternal-stats for public mind control spewing mini-truths of perpetual war raids disillusionment of history forever rewritten control supply-and-demand create dark-cloaked dilemma and monitor shortage and famine make-believe elements so well played to auto-frenzied latch thinking is degraded and actions.. well, less said 2. diligent and loyal yet harbour secret-hatred feed visions stilted by politrix deception and manipulation propaganda is the oleaginous-game by wand-over-mind totalitarian is the kingpin-holder of cards and yet, who is really being played! eternal marionettes on a conveyor-belt can't even play with yourself alone your **** your **** your every move.. watched - surveyed - and studied by that ubiquitous-bulge eye you cannot escape right opposite your low hard-bed you're broken into popping-parts that YOU won't recognise! thoughtcrime-police is gonna accost ya get up, comrade.. get UUUUUUUUP! 3. we are witness life-tube covered in darkened vapour-swirls we are witness children conditioned to watch their parents.. too closely we are witness truth so smothered, now re-fed by repeat-metaphor we are witness dictata.. dictata.. we are witness austere existence in a tacky one-room flat we are witness subsist on black-wheat and imitation-repast we are witness regurgitate the party-dialect on and on and on (after a while, we end up half-believing.. ) *only the clock which strikes thirteen can smell the charred-reality as leftover-truth is shoved into incendiary obsolescence* tick-a-damn-tock and that would be.. one S T - 26 sept
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a ****** of crows gathers over Hamburg, carrion carrying on with business as usual. feeding on the festered flesh of a gentrified populace. in private jets coughing carbon they fly from the west on turbine wings, engines screaming as they dive towards a nation secured by razor-wound walls and barb-wire borders. they pitched a battle in Germany, convinced that austerity would ******* the resistance and give justification to premeditated violence. but the tables have turned on the thieves again. we are the end result of your failed policies, globalization has destroyed our homes. if your cabal rallies like a kettle of vultures, you will do so behind closed doors, cowering in your fortress' halls. you shall not pass. watch as the power shifts like the melting gears of torched BMWs. we will tear the vestiges of your authority down. we will black out your surveillance cameras, smash your windows, and block your limos. no pasaran. flee, while you can still run. this city belongs to the wild ones, a black bloc, thousands strong, dancing amidst the tear gas, tossing molotovs. marching to liberty's sturdy drum, equal in our solidarity song.
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Jul 8, 2017
Jul 8, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC
(bloc)k
Ghost Relics Downtown, where Main intersects Main you'll see the last living tissue of a breathing bazaar. They weighed down her chest with bricks and girders. It's a wonder she breathes at all. - Wander too far in any direction and you're sure to see the husks of once proud and bustling businesses. Abandoned sanctums of mortar and majesty. Scars of the Midwest etched as constants in our mind. Dusty and silent since the cradle. - The theaters are bedeviled with dolled up haunts who just wandered over from Greenwood to catch the matinee. Management still leaves the lights on for kicks after hours to throw off their sleep schedules while they wait for the feature to start. Up all night, sleep all day; they read by neon and slumber under Sol. Here I am, left lounging in The Devil's Chair. Crickets keep quavering. - Underneath the Franklin Street overpass sleeps a family bound by naught. They watch in dawn's light as the few pedestrian that traverse Cerro Gordo advert their eyes as some sort of silent symbol of respect for their situation. It's as if the very stare of a privileged man could drain 'til depleted. They never ask for anything, they just wade it out and listen to the cars overhead, the train-clock's trumpet, and the heartbeats in between. - Leaks are patched, potholes filled, and yet we're still loosing blood; becoming beguiled. So many stray cats in the civilian savanna, aimlessly seeking names and second chances. "This premises is under police video surveillance" - hanging like ornaments from streetlamp poles. - Guarding the gates of a dwindling dominion, as the armies of Union and Grand wait in their camps for the rust to take hold of her iron veins.
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 12:52 AM UTC
Decatur, A Kingdom in Six Parts, Part II: Ghost Relics
Ghost Relics Downtown, where Main intersects Main you'll see the last living tissue of a breathing bazaar. They weighed down her chest with bricks and girders. It's a wonder she breathes at all. - Wander too far in any direction and you're sure to see the husks of once proud and bustling businesses. Abandoned sanctums of mortar and majesty. Scars of the Midwest etched as constants in our mind. Dusty and silent since the cradle. - The theaters are bedeviled with dolled up haunts who just wandered over from Greenwood to catch the matinee. Management still leaves the lights on for kicks after hours to throw off their sleep schedules while they wait for the feature to start. Up all night, sleep all day; they read by neon and slumber under Sol. Here I am, left lounging in The Devil's Chair. Crickets keep quavering. - Underneath the Franklin Street overpass sleeps a family bound by naught. They watch in dawn's light as the few pedestrian that traverse Cerro Gordo advert their eyes as some sort of silent symbol of respect for their situation. It's as if the very stare of a privileged man could drain 'til depleted. They never ask for anything, they just wade it out and listen to the cars overhead, the train-clock's trumpet, and the heartbeats in between. - Leaks are patched, potholes filled, and yet we're still loosing blood; becoming beguiled. So many stray cats in the civilian savanna, aimlessly seeking names and second chances. "This premises is under police video surveillance" - hanging like ornaments from streetlamp poles. - Guarding the gates of a dwindling dominion, as the armies of Union and Grand wait in their camps for the rust to take hold of her iron veins.
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In parlance of the street he's a dumpster-diver, scavenger of non-losing wager or proposition tickets. You'd see his fragile frame each night walking the isles of the race and sports books, a condor's aerial eye trained on the floor, back visible only to casino surveillance cameras. Seated atop a barstool at the back, I watch him bend, examine and discard, through the prism of my scotch glass. Every food chain has its bottom-feeders, he brings efficiency to the gambling ecosystem. Likely not the life that you or I would chose, but then he has no monthly credit card to pay. Just now, I saw him straighten and smile, a parlay ticket will pay for tonight's meal with just enough left for a brown-bag. He does not go uninvited to misfortune, the streets tonight are lined with chance's down.
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Mar 3, 2012
Mar 3, 2012 at 2:03 AM UTC
Suckled By the Night
I always felt inadequate around her she tickled a piano like a child composing a beautiful laughter in the winded chest of a string instrument with no agenda these are the times that I’m grateful for huge siblings that see everything global surveillance for these chance moments that are only ever recreated in scripts mandated to what we wish for reeling in net-fulls of the hopeless that though have had their hopes tested are unmoved their hearts caressed and back-rubbed out of the misery of a reality that is only so if it an be seen on a screen who’s Eden stands in the clay of a dream
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 12:46 AM UTC
On 'Mystery' and 'Why'
To crave, Wails of agony, voices soaked in terror? Call after call, message after message. Care, love, sympathy? Succor, surveillance, support? Tear after tear, hands shaking and grasping? Pity, solace, warmth? To receive, Levigating guilt, being disintegrated. Evanescensing from reality. Blood clotting and drying. Those who are paid to give care, Who seem as though sympathy; Hadn't glazed over their eyes in decades. A room so cold and sterile, That not even the warmth of my breath Could stop my bones from shivering under my skin. Desolating abandonment, Hums of fluorescent lights, In chorus with sobs of despondency It isn't what I wanted. But it is what I deserved.
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Aug 24, 2024
Aug 24, 2024 at 2:40 PM UTC
IVC
REPUBLICANS Former South Carolina GOP leader kills dog to please God Rob Beschizza GERMANY Germany's top domestic spy advised far right xenophobic political party on how to avoid being billed as "extremists" Cory Doctorow RUSSIA Guy who pretends to ****** people for a living named Russian Goodwill ambassador Seamus Bellamy   BUSINESS We're going to be eating bugs really soon now, again Cory Doctorow POLICE Surveillance camera shows off-duty NYPD cop dropping a weapon near man he shot in the face Rob Beschizza SCHOLARSHIP When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? Cory Doctoro CORRUPTION Wells Fargo: we stole houses and we're being investigated for ***** low-income housing credits Cory Doctorow LATE STAGE CAPITALISM How Jpay gouges prisoners' families for "digital postage stamps" Cory Doctorow ALEX JONES Alex Jones is suing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim for $100,000 Gina Loukareas *** :(
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Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 3:46 PM UTC
Nausea News
Union and Grand I moved into this house less than a year ago and already three gun related murders have occurred within a three block radius; two of them involving children. I'm not making this **** up. Those numbers wouldn't be anything exciting for a population hitting upwards of the millions, but this is not a big city. This is the heartland. - The city paid for a series of strategically placed dead ends, forced turns, and surveillance equipment to be installed in the area of about a mile surrounding my house. No wonder they call this place "The Trap". They keep changing the maze, and studying us like rats. - They had a make-do memorial for the little girl who got shot. They attached her stuffed animals, cards, and photos to a utility pole on the corner of Union and Grand. The city had it taken down. Some kind of city ordinance from some dusty tome at the town hall. Kids killing kids, and the shots keep firing. - Now don't get me wrong, I'm not what'd you call an activist. But when bloodshed occurs within eye shot of where you sleep, you start to get a little irked. These kids have as much potential as me, and twice as much grit. Their teachers barely even know their names, let alone what it's like to be deprived of privilege. - I'll stomp this concrete until my feet break. This labyrinth is my constant reminder and reality check. I am here, and you are there. This connection is suspended on silver threads and I am your puppet. Mold me into your angst driven dreamboat. Because tomorrow, I'm just going to wake up here. Tyler. - This soul has been folded seven times and I grow tired of this reality. There was a time when I could scream loud enough to wake the dead. I guess I'm showing the symptoms of an accidental child with a tongue that only tastes art as bitter protest. - I'd tear my face off to know if this is really getting through to you. The face in the photo is that of the goat; the false idol and deceiver. A Knight of Pentacles, selling you gold plated garbage. Odin-kin. You always feel like I have a secret to keep; my fist is in the air.
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 3:05 AM UTC
Decatur, A Kingdom in Six Parts, Part III: Union and Grand
Union and Grand I moved into this house less than a year ago and already three gun related murders have occurred within a three block radius; two of them involving children. I'm not making this **** up. Those numbers wouldn't be anything exciting for a population hitting upwards of the millions, but this is not a big city. This is the heartland. - The city paid for a series of strategically placed dead ends, forced turns, and surveillance equipment to be installed in the area of about a mile surrounding my house. No wonder they call this place "The Trap". They keep changing the maze, and studying us like rats. - They had a make-do memorial for the little girl who got shot. They attached her stuffed animals, cards, and photos to a utility pole on the corner of Union and Grand. The city had it taken down. Some kind of city ordinance from some dusty tome at the town hall. Kids killing kids, and the shots keep firing. - Now don't get me wrong, I'm not what'd you call an activist. But when bloodshed occurs within eye shot of where you sleep, you start to get a little irked. These kids have as much potential as me, and twice as much grit. Their teachers barely even know their names, let alone what it's like to be deprived of privilege. - I'll stomp this concrete until my feet break. This labyrinth is my constant reminder and reality check. I am here, and you are there. This connection is suspended on silver threads and I am your puppet. Mold me into your angst driven dreamboat. Because tomorrow, I'm just going to wake up here. Tyler. - This soul has been folded seven times and I grow tired of this reality. There was a time when I could scream loud enough to wake the dead. I guess I'm showing the symptoms of an accidental child with a tongue that only tastes art as bitter protest. - I'd tear my face off to know if this is really getting through to you. The face in the photo is that of the goat; the false idol and deceiver. A Knight of Pentacles, selling you gold plated garbage. Odin-kin. You always feel like I have a secret to keep; my fist is in the air.
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Home surveillance accessed by cellphone as the exhibitionist walks the halls. Peek-a-boo. Multi-camera action, one of the more positive aspects of your Orwellian achievement. © S. Wesley Mcgranor
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 5:42 PM UTC
I.P. Cameras
the invisible hand is in my pocket pilfering everything and there's nothing i can do to stop it from robbing me blind it does not guide it only destroys personal expression under the whims of an outmoded model of economics capitalism a philosophy that subscribes to the metaphysical conclusion that a spiritual malady plagues every human heart a harsh chorus that rings like a melody of triumph in the multi-million dollar mansions of the 1% convinced we're born selfish it seeks to reward us for our own malpractice an edict predicated on social darwinism that forestalls the possibility of future charity as it drowns in the throes of misanthropy and butchers any hope of philanthropic community or basic humanity to vanquish our more maleficent impulses relegated to paying taxes to ensure the illusion of security while our money finances endless war and police brutality rather than healthcare or education they know if they keep us sick and dumb they can get away with ****** if the population shirks in horror from the looming specter of terrorism they can justify ubiquitous surveillance that robs us of our right to self-determination but people should not be afraid of their governments governments should be afraid of their people they say we can't be trusted that this is for our own good but i'll call their bluff that bull on Wall St. is full of **** and like a matador i'll entice it to lower its horns and charge when itsjust a hairsbreadth away i'll turn to one side and let it skewer the slave-driver raising his whip behind me that same skulking shadow that turns veterans into homeless wanderers begging for loose change in Central Park a pale horse haunting the aspirations of college students it leaves the poor and oppressed shivering after dark and overburdens broken backs god doesn't hold up the world like Atlas we shoulder the globe now watch us shift the weight brought down by the people you tried to suppress this is not some petty expression of vengeance but the rallying cry of a dream deferred exploding out to meet your injustice mark my words we're taking over the world
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 10:22 AM UTC
dam(nation)
the invisible hand is in my pocket pilfering everything and there's nothing i can do to stop it from robbing me blind it does not guide it only destroys personal expression under the whims of an outmoded model of economics capitalism a philosophy that subscribes to the metaphysical conclusion that a spiritual malady plagues every human heart a harsh chorus that rings like a melody of triumph in the multi-million dollar mansions of the 1% convinced we're born selfish it seeks to reward us for our own malpractice an edict predicated on social darwinism that forestalls the possibility of future charity as it drowns in the throes of misanthropy and butchers any hope of philanthropic community or basic humanity to vanquish our more maleficent impulses relegated to paying taxes to ensure the illusion of security while our money finances endless war and police brutality rather than healthcare or education they know if they keep us sick and dumb they can get away with ****** if the population shirks in horror from the looming specter of terrorism they can justify ubiquitous surveillance that robs us of our right to self-determination but people should not be afraid of their governments governments should be afraid of their people they say we can't be trusted that this is for our own good but i'll call their bluff that bull on Wall St. is full of **** and like a matador i'll entice it to lower its horns and charge when itsjust a hairsbreadth away i'll turn to one side and let it skewer the slave-driver raising his whip behind me that same skulking shadow that turns veterans into homeless wanderers begging for loose change in Central Park a pale horse haunting the aspirations of college students it leaves the poor and oppressed shivering after dark and overburdens broken backs god doesn't hold up the world like Atlas we shoulder the globe now watch us shift the weight brought down by the people you tried to suppress this is not some petty expression of vengeance but the rallying cry of a dream deferred exploding out to meet your injustice mark my words we're taking over the world
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Where are the prisoners? Where are the guards? Watching. Ever watching. Light floods this cubicle, and Shadows entangle themselves in my sheets, while The omnipresent and intangible eye gazes. Devoid of visibility, only The gloom confides in me. The power of perfection entrapped in a hoop. Our ring encircles the guardian, who Is invariably stalking. Plagued Are the confined and deserted lepers. But what of the locks? Locks? The tower is our bolt. The eye will find the madman. Madness is also our disease, Guilt triumphs over futile attempts, the Belief is our ideology. Indisputable solidity becomes imaginary, while The goal is communal. We must, Survive in a personal Panopticon.
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 11:31 PM UTC
Surveillance
Nashville lights, twilight sights The dancer's dream, the faded stream perfumed ally, vagrant sally The words that call, the deadly fall Embraced indifference, padded surveillance The silent dreams, The nightly screams. Whispered messages, diluted references Fresh bound hopes, depravity copes indecent alliance, vengeful compliance dressed for show, momentum's flow A southern will, the bitter pill These little flickers that embrace The dreams of fame's tormented face. Alisdaire O'Caoimph
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Mar 24, 2011
Mar 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM UTC
Nashville
Conduct Unbecoming, False Poet Traveling thru the Heart of Love, like a Worm. Bring in the Court Martial Commuter Judge has an Appointing Stance for Freedom Held By One Promised to Protect Slovenly Surveillance Given without Permission An Election Year BONUS made for Royalty.. Get ready for Deportation 1) 1 Soldier 2) 3 Minister 3) 4 banker 4) 2 doctor wannabes and a Part Dove in a Pear Tree... Who wants "Orange and Black" ? After all Even Mind  Deserve Freedom of Choice Soldier
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Dec 25, 2015
Dec 25, 2015 at 7:56 PM UTC
COURT MARTIAL