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Access to Information
By
James Bredin
Access to information seems to be one of our illusions,
The bureaucrats and apparatchiks have no such delusions,
Backlog of complaints at least a mile or a kilometer long,
Everyone shaking their heads, some saying this is all wrong.
They are going to have some more scheduled committee hearings,
With judges and lawyers and others steering, jeering and fearing,
Because governments like to keep their stuff secret and quiet,
And those journalists and busy bodies could cause a riot.
Information applicants will just have to learn to wait,
Information may or may not be released at some future date,
Because they are concerned with damage control in a big way,
And this too they will be delayed so why don’t you just go away?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Keep reading because this will cause you to think.
By
James Bredin
Fortunately or unfortunately I’m getting very old,
Fortunately or unfortunately
I’m just as bold,
Fortunately or unfortunately I’m on the Internet,
Fortunately or unfortunately I don’t
know what I’m doing yet.
Fortunately or unfortunately my old friends don’t give a damn,
For a keyboard,
e-mail; not even the Internet or spam,
Fortunately or unfortunately we meet at funerals now,
Fortunately or unfortunately
we wonder what time god will allow.
Fortunately or unfortunately the walls on the streets don’t talk,
Or
the secrets they could tell could make most of us balk,
Fortunately or unfortunately this poem is now at an end,
But
if it has caused you to think a little, you go tell your friend.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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