Never Let Them Strap You to The Apparatus

Note to self: don’t write anything subversive.  B) Be calm.  Nonchalantly Nonchalantly ignore the secret agent behind the counter at McDonald’s.  & do not eat that super-size fry and double cheeseburger because everything is injected w/ cancer. Pay no attention to the woman in the hyped-out wheel chaise w/ the automatic weapon stashed in the vehicle’s framework. Don’t ask why electricians & telephone repairmen are constantly futzing w/ the cable TV & high tension lines. I repeat, tension is high. Who unscrewed the lid to the salt shaker & left it to be dumped on my plate? They watch you through the unblinking eye of the typing machine. Keep your eyes peeled for shifty postal workers & for poets who claim to be big fans of Ezra Pound. They rummage through your rubbish, & send your condoms to the lab. Hair is analyzed.  Habits monitored, graphed, charted.  They know that you like spicy black bean veggie burgers.  You might be a pacifist or just too weak to present a problem to Their infinitely financed Project Nameless. Even so, They still don’t trust you. They can make you disappear or maybe you just choke on bad clams after you slip and fall on an ice pick. Even as I write this, They read it from outer space with an electron microscope.  Another trick picked up from aliens.  They’ll come in the night to exterminate you as an enemy of the state.  An insect. Never let Them strap you to The Apparatus. Convince Them that you are the light & They are the dark.  Convince them that you are the dark and they are the light.