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  • THE USUAL SUSPECTS

    When I was younger corrupt public servants

    were always some sort of foreign Johnny –

    like the chief of police in ‘Casablanca’ –

    and events like Covid-19 the result

    of utterly unique and totally

    unforeseen circumstances not neglect,

    incompetence or insouciance,

    much less deliberate mayhem.

     

    Now the malfeasance is in plain sight.

    The crooks in all but name – public school boys

    and their acolytes of all classes

    and genders, the useful idiots,

    the ready sycophants, the gong-chasers,

    the jacks-in-office, and their main stream

    media apologists and enablers –

    are the same entitled class that purloined

    the so-called Elgin Marbles, and had away

    with the Benin Bronzes, and murdered

    Iraqi Kurds and Kenyan Kikuyu.

     

    Now that, for the masters and the mistresses

    of the universe, self-righteousness

    is justification enough for greed

    and thievery, and self-interest

    and the public good are one – unless

    you are in receipt of so-called benefits

    obviously. So those who, consequently,

    die or are maimed are always undeserving

    and dispensable. Thus, by default,

    Aristotle’s Great Chain of Being

    appears not only intact but well-oiled,

    the concept of choice of the Establishment –

    that exclusive sui generis elite.

     

     

     



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