Cheshire Cat Smile

Then Security came and exclaimed:
these cupboards on top is security
breach, cameras on the ceiling can-
not follow your movement behind
these partitions, they must come
down tout suite

A Cheshire Cat smile growing wide,
to top it all, the weight is too much
for the building, bureaucracy came
to my aid, everyone in the Ministry
has to conform to the same rules,
such a delight

Regulating survival wonderfully, living
life on a list, every breath, every step
noted and accounted for, every move
carefully planned, every moment filled
to the brim with justification, auditing
our own corner

Of the universe, rules used to mean
lack of freedom but actually increase
liberty by offering so many alternative
ways to obey or break them, meaning
choices proliferating, the more laws
we make, the more laws

To oppose and play with – I love
the world we live in!