Observers or Translators

you cannot ignore
when the linguistically
capable
are looking over your 
shoulder
as you carefully craft
sentences
grammar falls apart
fortitude crumbles
if you believe
that there is higher
capacity
in the power plant next door
steam leaks out of your pipes
when you get that feeling
that you are being
wattage?
measurement is a criminal
offense against monsters
who were innocent,
but for all those
crimes of passion
committed with
wandering eyes