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Wednesday 14 November 2012

The Emperors Old Clothes

Any society that is deaf to its whistle blowers,
sidelines it's prophets and shoots disagreeable messengers
in the foot, out of mere loyalty to the present oligarchy
is sowing the weeds of its own demise.
For as long as the regime enjoys being sold
as the emperors new clothes,
it makes every day the emperor's birthday.
Belief in the party is contingent on flattery of him,
relying on his telling lies in plain sight to the whole
wide world as he nakedly presses his suite
on his followers.

What will happen when the emperor loses office?
When he has to put on his old ordinary clothing?
Power will affect its holders, and is rarely kind
to those who, having clung to office, leave it behind.

2 comments:

  1. Dear representative of The Society For The Abolition Of The Errant Apostrophe your comment has been noted and acted upon. Thank you for your continuing corrective support.

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  2. I enjoyed the original version.
    But after the corrections were made the content of this post just made more sense to me :)

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