Surveillance

May 28, 2007

“All the things I know but of which I am not at the moment thinking — 1:36 PM; June 15, 1969.”

-Robert Barry

 

SURVEILLANCE

 

I liked the people at the next table.

Convenience store transactions make me less and less uncomfortable.

There are good reasons why that woman is on a billboard.

The air conditioning promotes lucid work.

You can reach me on my cell phone.

That the professor is a trifle stern only enhances the power of his words of praise.

What sounds like arguing in the next room is actually television.

I rarely question my own patriotism.

Grumpiness is a distraction.

The President’s intentions are basically good.

I am better now, thank you.

She wore a hectic shawl, but her voice soothed me.

Agents are working all the time, and you are safer for it.

I enjoy deleting spam emails advertising penis-enlargers.

I would fight if drafted.

We are thankful that he went quietly.

At work, it is possible to see bodies, but not to touch them.

Trucks keep America moving.

I am rarely home, but try me anyway.

One Response to “Surveillance”

  1. beto palaio Says:

    Marvelous postmodern poem… Well done, chris… Looks like alive theater.


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