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.

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.