At the second attempt at a conviction, the Burg sent a barrow full of books and bodies. Stymied by the case load, and put off again until summer.
We parry and poke at he the Gov’s of the day, but nary a featherless biped rises before the prosecutor and says, “NO THAT’S WRONG!”. So now the public and prostrated populous postulate and ponder the next ploy.
To the bench I say! Out with you all; to the dogs. The bureaucrats have been attempting to solve a problem created by themselves now for four months. No amount of navel gazing has produced a satisfactory solution. One by-law strewn around like a rag doll while others are proposed and confused.
These are paper rats. Desk jockeys who live in a flat world with no humanity or green space, sparing the odd posty note stuck to their cathode ray tube. Even our Burgomaster seems to have a nubilous understanding of his own Burg. His parochial vision is hazed by the fog of planners and yes-men who have never set foot outside their cubicle. Nay shall I suggest cubicide for these as they merely forward the thoughts and desires of ignominious ignoramuses.
Go ahead; you have a sentence with two following words starting with “igno”.
Yes, I say we all traipse our tired bodies down to the local house of ill repute, City Hall, and state our cases. Every white squib of parchment redelivered to the house from whence it came. Be wary though, those who purport to have power are less than full of it. Unless the want you have in mind is half of what is charged, then you are simply strewn back to the bureaucratic dogs.
No help on the third floor. Perhaps all that glass disables one’s ability to see clearly. It’s’a cuzin’ all the neighbors have one vision yet these denizens of the cube are blind to the geometry. So daily and hourly we keep our wits and eyes open for the lil white car with the Commish inside. They skulk about in innocuous vehicles so as not to raise the eyebrows of an ever watchful neighborhood.
Soon your number will be up, will you tally or parry that number for a cuppa Jo?
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land.
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