Sunday, December 22, 2013

648 : The Agency

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #140) presents a list of words
that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:
spider, echo, clear, level, attend, pulverize
intact, fly, shuttle, means, follow, listen, split.


The Agency

They build webs
Lightly
Quietly
Always listening
And attending
To vibrations,
Echoes of activity
Of interest;
Clear messages 
To attend to,
To shuttle across to,
To follow to the source
And pulverize,
Figuratively.
Or literally.
The small fly,
The small fry,
The little guy,
Who, at some level,
Has tweaked 
Their tendrils,
Tweaked their interest,
And though captured intact
The mind will be split
From the body—
Stress positions,
Ways and means,
Enhanced interrogation.
They are a spider
Multiple eyes,
Multiple arms
Venomous.

We should feel safer
But we don’t.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013
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28 comments:

  1. Another good one. I think if someone farts the CIA and equivalent agencies know about it. I am so glad I don't own a mobile :)

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  2. This is absolutely outstanding.

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  3. Fancy yourself in orange then, do you?

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  4. Very clever use of the wordle words. Ha, I wonder if they are reading poems in the blogosphere. Happy holidays to you, JC.

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  5. words with deadly effects.. :)

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  6. Your words remind me of a piece of news I heard the other day. Apparently there is too much data being exchanged for agencies to be able to really sort out what is relevant and what is not. Should that make us feel better?

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    1. Depends on whether it gridlocks the system or results in indefinite detention of some poor sod making a Bombe Alaska.

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  7. Delightful read it is, thank you for sharing JC. :)

    Ankita

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  8. Very clever! Really enjoyed this one.

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  9. Enough to make any small fly tremble...

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  10. Even the innocent look guilty to those without a conscience.

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  11. Take cover! The agency may have just added you to their list!

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  12. You took a wonderful direction!!!

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  13. Big brother can be a scary beast lurking in the corner ready to pounce..heavy..dark..omnipresent..

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  14. Here's a metaphor that works. Shakespeare too would love it!

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  15. a thoughtful and frightening peace... it rings of a truth that shouldn't be... but is

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  16. Great imagery and feeling. I felt like I was on that web, sometimes the spider and sometimes the fly!...

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  17. Very cool & scary....for the little guy caught in that web.

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  18. Yikes, makes me suspect we might both be on a list somewhere. Smiles.

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  19. Thanks for visiting my spidey verse. I like yours too!
    Yeah, sometimes the big boss, big brother...seems like 'they' have 1,000 eyes and at least that many legs! ~Cheers Jules

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  20. So true and frightening! Wonderful use of the words!

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  21. I got the feeling of flight...as if we with your words fly in cosmo..within the matrix....scary!

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  22. Small as they are, they're lethal. The sight of one can make us shiver! Great write Cosmo!

    Hank

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  23. Excellent use of the words, you made them your own,

    Elizabeth

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  24. Excellent play on words here

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