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For today’s prompt, write a “we’re being watched” poem. Humankind has really created a bunch of, umm, interesting things over the past 150 years or so. Some of it has helped save lives; some of it has helped destroy them; and some of it has helped spy on them, whether through phone taps, infrared vision, drones, online hacking, or surveillance cameras. Write a poem that touches on such things.

Turn


That side of your face
that angle

you,
clearly you

deciding which
candy bar
which
candy
which
chocolate

you

clearly you
in this moment

where love can be something else
almost is

which

which love
(you turn towards the camera, then away)

which moment
that will get you to the next
and then next
that will get you through the night

In the camera
you are serious
so serious
as if you had never been loved
very serious and then you are out

of frame