[Knowing No One Is Watching]

Knowing no one is watching
doesn't prevent me pretending
that someone is watching

That no one is watching
after watching me scream Look at Me!
means I have been judged trained and broken

I buy the devices
spend hundreds a month
on my surveillance
knowing no one is watching

*

Have I made my troll apoplectic yet
today I was asked, I was asked
what's a carrot steak (at a pun

gone wanting), I said $25
a poker hand, $15 blackjack
I tell myself the Xth time

my ink voice isn't empty
but dried. Wait, he got the jokes
he says, my digital New Zealand
acquaintance who might be a bot.