{"id":30208,"date":"2026-03-22T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=30208"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:23:25","slug":"trapped-in-the-grid-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/trapped-in-the-grid-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAPPED IN THE GRID &#8212; a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trapped-in-the-grid-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trapped-in-the-grid-optimized.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trapped-in-the-grid-optimized-557x696.png 557w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trapped-in-the-grid-optimized-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n<p>TRAPPED IN THE GRID       <\/p>\n<p>by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bill's Bible Basics Poetry and Songs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09-06-2024<\/p>\n<p>Now going back almost fifty years or so,<br \/>\nKarl said to never leave home without it,<br \/>\nAs we fast forward to this present time,<br \/>\nWe see few people ever seem to doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>But it is no longer those traveler cheques,<br \/>\nYou see, now it is something totally new,<br \/>\nIf for some reason you forget this thing,<br \/>\nIt could really leave you in a major stew.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a device to be connected all the time,<br \/>\nWhether you eat, sleep, or are at work,<br \/>\nMany folks have their face so deep in it,<br \/>\nI worry without it they might go berserk.<\/p>\n<p>But I must warn you of the sinister side,<br \/>\nBecause you really have a right to know,<br \/>\nBuried deep within that device you love,<br \/>\nGPS let&#8217;s them know everywhere you go.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it&#8217;s true that because of that tech,<br \/>\nThey could know everything that you did,<br \/>\nAfter all, you are merely a pawn to them,<br \/>\nWho they track on the global Matrix grid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how indeed it was such a clever plan,<br \/>\nTo create a device that&#8217;s in high demand<br \/>\nNow our actions are so closely watched,<br \/>\nTheir surveillance is clearly out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>If we were to suddenly stop using them,<br \/>\nImagine the chaos which would ensue,<br \/>\nPeople are so dependent on them now,<br \/>\nI dread they would not know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>And thus we go about our daily affairs,<br \/>\nWith our cell phones probably nearby,<br \/>\nKnowing full well there is an eye on us,<br \/>\nYet we rarely stop &#038; ever question why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Poetry #Poem TRAPPED IN THE GRID by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 09-06-2024 Now going back almost fifty years or so, Karl said to never leave home without it, As we fast forward to this present time, We see few people ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/trapped-in-the-grid-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,6248,1243,6249,753,1448,2251,83,597,596,6573,598,3698,6353,6247,6572,6571],"class_list":["post-30208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-blue-pill","tag-control","tag-controlled","tag-deceive","tag-deceiver","tag-deceivers","tag-deception","tag-gaslight","tag-gaslighting","tag-grid","tag-manipulate","tag-manipulators","tag-matrix","tag-red-pill","tag-trapped","tag-trapped-in-the-grid"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40081,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions\/40081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}