Plato's Basement

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This is a poem I wrote for class.  There is a reference to Plato's Allegory of the Cave which is a theory about prisoners trapped in a dirty cave since birth who don't know they are prisoners.  There is also a bit of a reference to The Truman Show, a movie about a man living in a utopia that's not as happy and pretty as it may seem.

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Slimy walls

Painted in pastels

Strange shadows

With smiling faces

Binding chains

Just loose enough

To pretend they’re not even there

Here in Plato’s Basement

Where the your every move is seen

Calculated

Recorded

You are being watched

And there is nothing you can do about it

Nothing

But stand in horror

As life goes on around you

You may shout all you wish

They will still not see anything but

This picturesque

Happy home they’ve given you

A utopia

That cannot survive

It is useless

To beat your fists against the walls

For they will only grow closer

With each pounding fit

You will be defeated

You will not succeed

You are stuck here

In this hole

With shiny doorknobs

And un-illuminating candles

Forever

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