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The polygraph interview.(Poem)

Quadrant

| June 01, 2003 | Sherborne, Craig | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
THE POLYGRAPH INTERVIEW 
 
   The machine quotes me by taking my pulse. 
   Now I know where my lies are stored--my blood. 
   All along they were there in my blood, 
   dormant in their microscopic 
   thousands like a self-inflicted virus. 
 
   Sending signals out through the leads of my veins, 
   wrist throbs, pressure flow, invisible sweating, 
   my body offers them for confession 
   by saying the opposite of my mouth. 
   The woman who clips cold steel to my finger 
   becomes biographer of my sudden past. 
   Her squiggly graphs take dictation from my heart 
   until I'm rendered undishonest. 
 
   I've only come for employment. This test 
   is to prove I'm fit for The Company. 
   But here's a mind-reading, ...
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