Friday, August 10, 2012

We Are Our Own Spies



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 bounds
To 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 submission
To 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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