Panopticon
Locked out of common purpose
An all-seeing prison
Against un-common perpetrators’
Petty crimes
World Head Quarters rocks
Marcus Garvey House
Chains us to ghost
Boogie-woogie
Old saints old sinners eager
For Your Eyes Only
They pay with a tenner
For your all-seeing gaze
Ancient twockers
Stoned in asphalt
Inheritors of the dole queue
Refaced at Swan House
By the spent bus-station skulking
Gammy pigeons shitting
On smart salarymen’s
Cars groaning and sweating
Cruel rocks
To a useless state
Slashed by motorway
Panopticon blind
Tracy is a poet, actor and writer currently studying and working at Newcastle University. She is co-curator of the The Cold Boat project and recently returned from a residence at the British School at Rome and the Keats-Shelley House, researching a creative response to the Shelley archive: https://creativeresponsesite.wordpress.com