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uncuffed

Janet Kuypers
3/12/15

when i was arrested
they put handcuffs
    a little too tight
around my wrists
behind my back.

they put me
in the back
of their squad car,
took me to
their headquarters,

a little building
you can only get to
through the off ramp
of the expressway.

they sat me down,
uncuffed one hand,
cuffed the other
to the bench.

tried to charm them
so i might
get off easy.

looking back,
i thought it was
nothing like
the holding cells

on the Enterprise,
where prisoners
are escorted
and not handcuffed

they’re escorted
to a room all their own,
with a force field
for a wall.

well,
I must have
sweet talked them,
i didn’t go to jail —

but i imagine
prisons aren’t as roomy

or as clean

as they are
on a star ship
like the Enterprise.

and prison bars
just aren’t the same
as a force field.

#

it would have been nice
to touch
a force field,
see what it felt like.

did it hurt.

it probably would,
and would hurt more
than those handcuffs.

#

I know I have
a Dali lithograph,
a cooler one
than Kivas Fajo’s,

but I didn’t steal it
like he did,
before he stole Data,
before he was caught.

he thought of that
holding cell
as an exhibit
where anyone could walk by
and observe him,

like the priceless things
we all like to keep
and show off.

we all want to be the one
with the most toys,
don’t we.

but no matter what
century you live in,
no matter what
fantasy world you live in,

getting caught
is never an option.

you’ll only want
to be free
from that force field

or hope
your time will come
and you’ll be uncuffed.


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