Do not fear the authorities
if you have nothing to fear,
dictated St. Paul from prison
in a mid-first century year.
But St. Paul had no knowledge of
the NSA and their voracious need –
a vision of going the extra mile
to slake their unquenchable greed,
a greed disguised as need that evokes
images of fiction’s dystopian style,
that of the prophetic absurdist writer
Franz Kafka’s no smiling win-win “Trial.”
The craziness of authoritarian instincts … driven by paranoia … a formula for disaster …