Conspiracy Theory

This one is just for fun.

Conspiracy Theory

Perhaps the geraniums and the furniture
have interesting lives entirely their own--
criminal pasts and ferocious political views
beyond our own needs for comfort and style.

Maybe every flower in the yard is a spy
for the Axis, each of them hiding a microphone
in its blossom and reporting our movements
in code to a bunker in Tokyo or Berlin. 

Or think about this: what if those supra-cool black
leather Italian chairs you bought for your den
were secretly Fascists, faithfully recording the radical
and avant-garde opinions of you and your friends

and feeding them daily to the Minister of Information?
Could you sit upon them then? Could you ever again enjoy
how entirely hip they are? Could you say to a guest, “Please
have a seat, Benito ‘El Duce’ Mussolini is listening?”

 

© Mark MacDonald 2012