Bureaucrats

bureaucrats always think

they are on the side of right,

no matter how wrong or unjust

that side might be,

never seeing themselves

through the eyes

of their victims,

never understanding

the rights of individuals,

over the authority of the system;

despots and tyrants could not exist

without their bureaucrats,

someone to stamp the orders,

file the paperwork,

ensuring the trains run on time

to places like Auschwitz and Treblinka,

providing a well functioning

slave market, to feed

the king cotton industry,

hiding the suffering and misery,

behind walls of official sounding

legal jargon,

vital cogs in the machine;

mindless,

robotic,

the darkness behind

the evil,

good people

just doing their job;

pathetic

little worms.

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