Forever Hold My Peace…

I shall follow your wise and kind advice

and return to my duties as behoves

a good government official; oh yes,

oh yes, oh ye-e-e-sss! why are

you so moody? Have you always

been like this? Tranquillizers might

help, anti-depressants and sleeping pills;

shots in syringes and sweet syrups in

cough mixtures; bad humour and bile

will depart with good movement of

the intestines; one should never

confuse indigestion with firmness

of character; oh dear, you want me

to stop communicating; how very

frustrating; it makes me curious,

so vexatious; why don’t you wish

to talk to me? Because you’re

worried about my duty? Hardly likely,

must be a case of bile building up,

bad vapours making you sad and

bad-humoured – I forgive you for

hating me; bring all your anger and

frustration and hatred for the evil

nation and sad politicians and evil

gossipmongers and dastardly

poets and nasty undertakers and

mean backstabbers and exploiting

emotional blackmailers – oops, wait,

that must be me – and cry-babies

and whiners – oops, that is me too –

and sarcastic backbiters- yep, that is

definitely me – and abuse me,

take out all your anger at this

nasty world out on me; then write a

beautiful poem about how wonderful

the world is now that you have

killed and slay, destroyed and

maimed, cut-off and lamed,

mutilated and shamed; evil me,

inform the world how you will

rid it of people who waste the

time of all good people, serfs

and regents alike – to make it

a better place for all – oops,

didn’t you say I should get

back to work? I will immediately

execute your orders with alacrity,

shouldn’t you have ordered me

to execute myself – commit

hara-kiri – fall in a sword,

plunge a knife into my heart,

swallow poisons of all kinds,

imbibe toxic mushrooms, for Sal Monella

food-poisoning – oops, there I go again,

did you say get back to work?

Just tell me WHY, and I won’t pester

you again – this is a solemn promise,

give me one good reason and I’ll forever

hold my peace…

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