POEM OF THE MONTH!

Dear Readers, NSA, Obama and the CIA, the Eel and her Small Fry thought you should read this poem. Many thanks to Rose Drew for sending us this literary gem! On behalf of Rose, the Eel would like to remind NSA not to forget to floss, and she hopes you have a good day. Given that a life of spying on people and reading mail not sent to you must be lonely, we decided to be nice and include you in all our posts so that you can pretend you have friends. 

Love from the Eel, the Eel's Small Fry and Rose x 

What are you in for?

prison shivs
guard towers
stick with your own kind.

just bigger yards with
private cells
that never the less
can be breached
by guards
at will.

most don’t realize we’re inside.
the walls grew
quietly
while we handed over our bags for inspection
raised our arms,
politely,
for cancer scans,
looked the other way
when our library list was expunged.

the rules lengthened
silently,
while we accepted wiretapping,
unwarranted searches,
being held without charge
for
ever.

sure, they came for them
or they
or not me or then me or fillintheblank cliché:

but the truth is,
they rounded all us up
and we just changed the channel
laughed at Simon Cowell
and forgot to care.

prison shivs
guard towers
stick with your own kind.

just bigger yards with
private cells
breached
by Authority
at will.

By Rose Drew