Best Oppressions Poems

When "oppressive"
becomes synonymous with "government"
and when "government"
becomes synonymous with "bureaucracy"

Then "oppressive government bureaucracy"
sounds like a redundant bad-boy platitude,
ungrateful anthro-
elitist attitude,
absence of relationships 
for which I might feel
non-egged on
and non-eggheaded
regular
everyday
humane/divine 
peace mindfull 
gratitude. 

While "enlightened government bureaucracy"
now sounds like a sarcastic oxymoron
spreading virally
from Red
to Blue
to wondering...

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