Hi all......Happy Thursday ( I've run out of song title's !! )
Hope you are all fine and dandy !

Today is day 6 of 30 poems in 30 days !

The poem today comes from The Pocket Rocket herself Susan McCartney.
A cautionary tale of our surveillance society.

My deep fat fryer has grassed me up: by Susan McCartney

They’re knocking my door down

The WI have tapped my phone

My smart fridge has reported me

To the Food Police

To the FBI, the CIA

MI5 and

The WI

They say that with my teeth

I’m digging my grave see

So they’re here to save me

But they’ll have to get by

Pizza boxes stacked ten feet high

My knuckles they’re set to rapping

‘Cos in vitamins I’m lacking

Alright I’m a loafer

Guzzling chips on the sofa

But don’t call me bloated

From crunching crispy crumbed and coated

For pity’s sake

Leave me some cake!

Packaged, processed, pierced to ping

It’s my life, my body, my own thing

The fryer flashed its lights and said

But we’re only trying to save yer

From your unhealthy behaviour

On my knees, please

I entreat – you cannot beat

Unknown bread-crumbed greasy meat

You toaster, wretch, betrayer – have you no heart?

Please, please make me just one more Pop Tart

Salads just cannot meet

The pull of the sugary sweet

There is no escape for me

They’ve come to arrest me

The grill it sobs as I go

Saying I told you so

It cries. Hang your head in shame

You’ve only got yourself to blame

I shake my fist

I growled and hissed

You know what this means

They’re going to force feed me greens

If the grill had a head it would have shook it

Saying - with proper food you have to cook it!

Food should be in colours bright

Not grey, brown or white

I sob – I’ll eat what I like

In panic I make a grab

For that left-over kebab

Fingers wagging they all stare at me

Not in our society

Not in our BIG SOCIETY

There are rules and WE make ‘em

It’s not for you to break ‘em

I didn’t eat my ten a day

Now they’re hauling me away

You may think this is all a lie

But your toaster is a spy

It’s reporting you to GCHQ - and the FBI

The CIA, MI5 and

The WI

Brilliant ...... Well done Sue...funny but true ???

Here's some interesting and perhaps scary facts about how we are being watched...

Security cameras have been around for longer than we may imagine. Security cameras have been available since 1942, and in use since the 1960s.

The first security camera was installed in Germany on a V2 rocket by an engineering company. Yes, it was used not for crime prevention but to watch the launch of a rocket.  

The security camera was designed and installed by the Germans engineer Walter Bruch.

In 1992, 20 years after Walter Bruch developed the first camera, a security camera made its appearance in Olean, New York, USA. The city installed security cameras in a business district to help fight and deter crime.

The banking industry was the first industry to adapt security cameras – no surprise there!

In 1996, Axis Communications released the first IP camera.  

Today, in UK and US, video surveillance cameras are used ubiquitously, but they are most prevalent in the UK. How prevalent?

UK has 4 million cameras, which equals to 20% of the World’s total surveillance camera installations.

UK hosts one surveillance camera for every 11 people – wow that’s a lot of cameras!
Only 9% of consumers today own a security camera.

Yet, around 67% of burglaries can be deterred by installation a security camera.
Only 3 percent of all crimes in the UK are solved using surveillance systems – don’t mistake this with prevention.

The average citizen appears on a security camera over 300 times a day – If you wonder why, look back at point 9.

Approximately 25 million surveillance cameras are operating around the world.

Many industries use surveillance or security camera systems to monitor areas where it is not safe for humans or entry is not possible – i.e. nuclear power plants and chemical factories – more industries could use this, aka mining.

Criminals also use security cameras. For example near ATMs to record your PIN number and bank information or to monitor behaviour – comings and goings of individuals.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........................

Poetry Challenge

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.





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