Mind is Panopticon
**A poem a day project, poem 2**
“Panopticon of the Mind With One Person Inside”. Oldridge x Dall-E
One is in the Panopticon, where all things are seen, from all sides, at all times.
- one is in despair
- one sees into another-vicarious instant
- one has writer’s block
- one leaps, one falls
- one-
- 1.
1.
The all-knowing eye on all sides of the panopticon takes in information from inside the panopticon walls. Reflections of one reality in the all-seeing eye. The eye/I has known me, will know me.
- it won’t let me, you won’t let me.
- stock market in real-time ticker
- a meal on a tin plate, lukewarm water speckled with dust
- remains of a robe, a black cloak, tattered, moth-ridden
- 13 rats that hide in corners, away from the spotlight light beam
One remembers a lighthouse, craggy shores and rocky skree-
and seagulls-skree skree skree. One remembers driftwood & debris washing to shore. One remembers the stairs twisting to the top & halogen bulb guiding ship to shore, shore to ship.