Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Panopiticism

I've been reading Foucault lately about Bentham's panopticon while at the same time taking a poetry class. Here is my combination of the two. Enjoy.

We’re watching you

We’re watching you

With cameras

On the streets

At the supermarket

In the airport

It is for your protection

We watch everything you do

to save you

From the murderers

From the terrorists

From the people that run red lights

They’re all dangerous

They must be stopped


We don’t have cameras in the bathroom

Yet

That is why so many crimes take place there

Maybe next year

Maybe tomorrow

We’ll put cameras there

It’s for your protection

We might see you naked

Or on the pot

But its constitutional.

No violation of the fourth amendment

Kind of like the body scanners

You choose to go to the bathroom

Kind of like how you choose to fly

And be seen naked by TSA agents

Or molested.

You could not go number one

And not be seen naked


You will be safe

when you go to the bathroom

because we will have cameras there

and we will be watching

next time you go number two

we’ll know.

And we’ll be watching

Only to protect you.