hang ears in chandeliers
tie cams to hummingbird wings
bribe the barista & delivery guy
badger dormouse & eavesdrop on
spidey’s sticky lines
waste your time
here I am, a clam
[ &
you’ll never
guess
my dark plan
to possess
your
heart ]
Image Banksy, Marble Arch, London, photo by Niv Singer on Unsplash, A quadrille for Dverse where Kim is hosting and asks us to eavesdrop in 44 words.
And here’s David Bridie with ‘The Tender Trap‘.
Peter Frankis writes 
Terrific!
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Very cool Peter! Fascinating write… 🙂
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Alexa and Echo are eavesdropping, and any items mentioned pop up in Facebook feed. Cameras are everywhere. We have no secrets any more!!
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My daughter makes extensive use of Alexa: for timing when cooking, to turn lights on and off, play music, etc. When I stayed with her, I struggled to get Alexa to turn off the light when I wanted to go to sleep and she ended up calling my son-in-law’s phone! And I said thank you every time she got it right!
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This is absolutely stellar, Peter. I like how the poem can be interpreted in several different ways 🙂
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Wow, this is beautiful with so many layers of depth. ❤️❤️
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Its everywhere, I say. (Also liked that sinister thought). Enjoyed the image that inspired your words too!
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Very clever, Peter. As long as he isn’t a stalker… The music is good and the video meshes well with it.
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Thanks (Ha – I almost posted the long creepy stalker song by Death Cab for Cutie – but thought better of it 🙂)
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Funny!
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here I am, a clam
yes
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This one makes me smile…sure the clam is smiling too 🙂
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Walls have ears, indeed! Thank God Google & Amazon can’t see inside our heads (yet).
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A great choice of image to illustrate your inspired quadrille, Peter. I especially love ‘hang ears in chandeliers’ and the nicely rhyming clam with a dark plan! Made me smile. 😉
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Cor, I knew those clans were up to something!
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What was that old saying, I think from the book 1984 (and I read it when 1984 seemed so so far away!)….Big Brother is Watching You! These days, we google one thing, and the next thing we know, ads for it are popping up on our FB site or when we google other things. When we were in Shanghai about a year ago, there were cameras on all the traffic lights that showed pedestrians when to walk, when not to walk….and there is facial recognition so if someone “disobeys” the law and jaywalks, they get points taken off on their something-or-other so that if enough points are taken off, they may not get a particular privilege when they apply for it. You forget you are in a Communist country when you walk around the vibrant city….until you realize that is happening.
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Shudder.
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That is quite enticing/creepy! Love the word play, rhyme, and cadence of the piece.
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Thanks so much, enticing/creepy was what I was aiming for…
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Just right then!
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Very nice Peter! Some people are just oblivious!!
Dwight
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Oh this is so good… and I feel that there are too many ears around… even if Alexa has been banned here.
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The clam lurking in the shallows while we’re worrying about the chandeliers and the hummingbirds. Earthy 🙂
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love the outlandish here which is advent for that final impossibility – of course your way with words is nothing short of remarkable
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This is creepy, but I love the clam, just waiting. Great image, too.
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Never knew a clam could be so devious. Great poem,Peter.
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