Other Cages, Other Walls

It is not a new idea that we are all prisoners in our own skulls, nor that walls by their nature keep some would-be invaders out and also keep the wall-builders in. Ecclesiastes says both “There is nothing new under the sun” and “all IS Vanity.” The newness is in observation of current conditions that uniquely apply. And in gimmickry, which is rife on this page, and in this acrostic poem.

Other Cages, Other Walls

O to S T O P that overflow

Topple stem and overthrow

Help a migrant to rejecta

Earn a nation’s cowed respect–a

Rig a mortis reach upHEAVE-all

CommanDante cache bequeathe

Aliens a fear-thee-well

Gain that Seventh Parallel

Eat our Wheaties wear our Nikes

See us altering our Psyches