Short Bureaucratic Poems

The catastrophe of living,
Pragmatic power-lust,
Why must I be, 
Your bureaucratic baby,
Reduced to fuel,
and dust?

I'm not yours....

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In the middle
In the midst
Of this bureaucratic 
Heart
Pumping 
Paper
Ideas
The pulse 
Of this great nation
In the middle
In the midst
Of me...

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~Senator Foghorn~ (Diamante)

Statesman
honest, visionary
working, serving, caring
principled, dutiful, pragmatic, bureaucratic
wheeling, dealing, conniving
wonkish, corrupt
Politician

...

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Inside/Outside
Maze of life, Mirror of thought
Brain symbiosis on bureaucratic 
Check the bank 
The recognition dizzied, paralyzed

Come thunder to break the ice
Come harpoon to cut control 
Bring spirit underground
Where echoed sounds still resound

Love reigns in wet drops
Love conquers all shields...

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In the middle
In the midst 
Of this bureaucratic 
Heart
Pumping
Paper
Ideas
The pulse
Of this great nation
In the middle
In the midst
Of me

 Circa 2005


Ottawa born and raised. I was a bicycle courier here for twenty years, developing a very special affinity for my city, my community, and my country....

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Your treat, Monsieur de Honoré,
a sundae, hot fudge,
an iced cream dream 
sans bureaucratic nightmares, 
those trance-like states
of oh, so good men;
the static office-men
who barely skimmed life's
sweetness--that hot fudge sundae 
nestled deep in the heart of all. 
Time to eat up. 
"Look! Monsieur de Balzac has already finished his!" 




The inspiration for this poem came after reading 
Monsieur Honoré de Balzac's novel, The Bureaucrats....

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Love is a creature of the night,
silent at daylight. Only at sunset
after the bureaucratic fatigue,
we immerse in ceremony of love.

Desire radiates the moon.  undressing the sky.
The doors locked, curtains down, the fire erupts, 
our naked bodies transforming the room.
The flames wash off the fatigue, harmonize
the flesh bathed in sinfulness, our
nocturnal ritual a brilliant affair. 
Breathless lovemaking the supreme being-in-time
never rants about itself, or its accomplishment....

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