DAMIAN GARSIDE

IN CAMERA

I am watching

your read my poem


the dot in the (i) in vagina

contains a micro camera

through which I am

monitoring your response

and reaction


looking for anything suspicious

such as that you

might love poetry

more than

political parties or

global capitalism

(which is why

human beings were

created in

the first place


though our leaders, corporate

and political, being

gods

created themselves)


now I can see from your

distaste of the satire

here which

your body language would

suggest you

find totally unjustified


that everything is fine

from our perspective, we

are reassured

to the degree of

an wholly acceptable

73.235% for

the

moment at least


and are only problem is one

of slipping a vagina into

this poem

as it

does not rhyme

with surveillance, is

more a

thing to

slip into than

to

slip in


and always produces connotations

that do not fit

well with the

beautiful omniscience of

the divine politician.