Crikey

So he says ‘Crikey, I didn’t know that,’ which we

knew anyway; but you couldn’t say it out aloud - 

it’s an event hidden in the cloud we’re supposed 

to know ‘filters out’ all those sorts of comments 

Yeah, mate, you’re innocent of anything criminal, 

with the exception of ignorance - although that’s 

no defence, given you agreed with the hierarchy 

approving your job, expenses - and salary to be 

Which’s why loyalty to the cause is an indemnity 

against being accused of negligence; except, in 

a sense, you’re still Patsy for later use, or if they 

find a need to hang a loose goose on the fence 

So why’re you relating this stuff t’ me he pleads, 

I’m just a Party pleb who’s keen to represent th’ 

Constituents’ electing me; & if there’s decadent 

tricks afoot, why isn’t it The Party who tells me 

And there is where we cease the interview; truth 

be told - you would not want to believe it is true, 

no form of immunity f’ breeze-shooting like this 

exists; altho, and as if, we didn’t know that too 

© 1 May 2018, I. D. Carswell