Motion Sensors-Vanilla Simone
Motion Sensors
By Vanilla Simone
New houses are built
electrified with special lights over the driveway
that know when someone is coming.
Small appliances, implanted on the corners
hidden away so as not to be obtrusive
or easily avoided.
They wait alone, watching,
not sentient, to know what they’re doing
but going on instinct
bred by a large manufacturer
bent on making every house the same.
Standard porchlights and driveway lights
that watch
are supposed to be comforting-
warning the household of anyone approaching.
They make it very hard to sneak out
when a person wants to stay unnoticed
(which is the point of these nanny lights).
So when a car drives up
the gismos come to life
screaming with floodlight brightness
that there is a visitor.
The lights sense the motion of something nearby
and make sure that everyone knows.
It makes one wish
that these tattletale know-it-alls
could be unimplanted.
Copyright C. 2008 Vanilla Simone