got caught
on a not so
hidden camera
his eyes these
two dots &
his surface
so white it
fought off any light
his sound bit-
ten off as he
tried telling them
how he’d gotten
the notebook
so he could
jot down all
he thought were
his own thoughts
but were now
virtually
nothing worth
noting lots of
zeros & ones
our hero now
re-dotting his eyes
his surface so
white he could be
spotted from
atop the clouds
what had pass
worded off
for an identity–
all he’d been taught
about being an “I”
bought into ever-
y thing they
were selling
Mark DeCarteret has been working at Water Street Books in Exeter NH for 10 years. Worked at Stroudwater Books in Portsmouth for 7. And Wordsworth in Cambridge MA for 1. He’s also worked at the Emerson College Library in Boston and volunteered at Wiggin Memorial Library in Stratham NH. His poetry has appeared in 450 reviews, 25 anthologies and 7 books.