Beyond The Pale

The good Ol’ Gaslight Company is staunch and 

true to self-congratulatory mantras imbued with 

their version of reality; now electricity vendors - 

and as far as one could be from gas they’ll pee 

their way through a morass of bureaucratic evil 

which they’ll admit arose out of stale flour filled 

with weevils pretending to be Public Servants 

unable to recognise their own errors 

We’re meant to see that as ‘fee’ collectors their 

proposed ‘good intent’ depends on matters they 

haven’t a bees-knees about; meter readers are 

employees of the company generating power - 

outside their clique, meaning queries are a way 

to efficiently buck-pass and maintain pretence 

As long as cash changes hands effectively who 

cares if a meter reader misreads - except me of 

course, and I’ve the temerity to ask what is this 

aberration of a meter running backwards - as if 

it explains the error colloquially - yet neither of 

‘em sense that’s already beyond the pale 

© 16 October 2014, I. D. Carswell