Mack Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
We Are Our Own Spies
“Who is Number
1?”
“You are
Number 6.”
– The Prisoner, 1965-1966
They
do not need The Village1 to spy on us
To
Rover2 us with unseen, unknown boundsTo drug our dreams with possets venomous3
Or microphone us on our guarded rounds
Because
In
some bright Orwellian techno-mart
We
stand in humble, sad submissionTo purchase tiny Rovers of sinister art
And contract for our own inquisition
The allusions are to Patrick
McGoohan’s The Prisoner.
1The Village –
the prison only looks like a holiday
camp
2Rover – the
malevolent robotic spy, enforcer, and keeper of the bounds, a sort of
proto-drone
3“possets
venomous” - #6 is frequently drugged by The Village in hopes he will tell all
(Perhaps one of the secrets is why the editing device will not at the moment allow me to reduce item 3 in size)
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