Tamper-Proof

R. Tristan DeWitt

The camera always pans away just
Long enough to catch itself
As it pans back.

To be inventoried impersonally,
It should have hollowed us more than it did.

Still, the sound it makes has industrialized us.
We are determined not to fall behind.

But, in a growing number of cases,
These perfumes only serve to illustrate
Their own children’s book.