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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