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To a Bureaucrat
To A Bureaucrat
You are as irrelevant
to my future
as I am to yours.
I have no power over you
and I seek none.
But, you are unhappy
to be likewise.
You pretend
to have influence
with the big people
enabling you
to pull the strings
of my destiny.
I am relieved
that you pretend.
Once we move on
from our present abode
YOU are, as I,
nothing.
What will separate us
and, thankfully, distinguish
you, from I,
is, Of course,
your craving for the means
to control my life.
I am not important
you calmly agree.
That you are not important,
you furiously dispute.
Okay, then,
you are important but...
only to yourself.
--Anthony Mclntyre Long Kesh
You are as irrelevant
to my future
as I am to yours.
I have no power over you
and I seek none.
But, you are unhappy
to be likewise.
You pretend
to have influence
with the big people
enabling you
to pull the strings
of my destiny.
I am relieved
that you pretend.
Once we move on
from our present abode
YOU are, as I,
nothing.
What will separate us
and, thankfully, distinguish
you, from I,
is, Of course,
your craving for the means
to control my life.
I am not important
you calmly agree.
That you are not important,
you furiously dispute.
Okay, then,
you are important but...
only to yourself.
--Anthony Mclntyre Long Kesh
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