CCTV must see after dark,
If Security has to embark…
On watching grounds
For out-of-bounds,
Intruders intent on a lark!
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For such work it is desirous,
To have a functioning iris…
To open wide
At eventide,
To see anyone so desirous!
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–J.E.C.
He looked over to golden trees
Not showing on CCTV…
Fading sunlight
Illumined them right,
So who wants to watch TVs?
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–Jonathan Caswell
My view on CCTV
Looks pretty good to me…
Lawns turn green
And pretty the scene,
Road sand has moved naturally!
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Flower bed edging is sharp,
Waiting for plant here to park…
A couple weeks likely
Before we’re frost-free,
Then the landscapers embark!
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Raining for two weeks,
Some of us sprouting leaks…
With webbed feet
Our change is complete,
Add gills–we can lounge in creeks!
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–Jonathan Caswell
CCTV ONE CAN SEE
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It’s raining so hard you know,
On camera it looks like snow…
Positioning a light
Behind a camera bright,
Reveal rain streaks’ down-flow.
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–Jonathan Caswell
WAR TO WIN–A BATTLE LOST
He couldn’t resist much more,
Slipping poetry under her door…
Cameras saw most
Of his anxious post,
He can claim he was making a tour!
–Jonathan Caswell
CCTV AND COLD COFFEE
Watching them walk down the hall,
Observing every footfall…
When she walks by
He lets out a sigh
With a moment’s look of enthrall.
–Jonathan Caswell
WINTER’S ARRIVAL
At about eleven PM
Eastern Standard Time…
Our rain turned into snow,
A slippery, slushy rime.
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Worcester, Mass., is getting
What was promised all along…
What was originally wetting,
Turns into a Christmas song.
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The flakes are getting bigger
As I monitor CCTV…
My relief is coming, I’ll go on my round
And I hope that is safe for me…?
–Jonathan Caswell
CCTV FAUNA
Over a camera, a spider,
Moves forth and back like a glider…
Spinning its web
Before making bed,
Hoping for unwary colliders!
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We’ve seen hornets, wasps and flies,
Become giant-sized…
The farther the focus
The more hocus pocus,
And the bigger they seem to our eyes.
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The underside of this spider looks white,
At least near that shining spotlight…
Its legs all moving
And the web is improving,
Should be finished by morning’s light.
–Jonathan Caswell
GINGER AFTER NIGHTFALL
A ginger tabby cat
Just walked across the screen…
Looking for something to eat,
Near the swamp’s outlet stream.
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It walks in front of that camera
Every week or so…
Where it goes after CCTV
I really don’t know.
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I hope it finds a nice soft nest,
Even better, a nice filling meal…
Looking via cameras at animal life
Is part of this job’s appeal!
–Jonathan Caswell
IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION…!
In an undisclosed location
Works a Guard all alone….
Making sure
That on his tour,
All doors are rammed home.
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His senses are heightened
As the work load is lightened…
It’s bound to stay
A long night’s way
Until each bolt is tightened.
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With no one on the floor,
Just the desk, he’s done before…
This evening’s split
So another will get
Enough hours and the final tour.
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But for the rest of the week,
Eight hours at the desk will tweak…
Labor cost down
So the client’s found,
But the little guy accepts it meek.
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Can’t write all poetry,
With limits to creativity….
Need to bring a book,
With frequent looks
At all places with the CCTV!
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 