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Isha Gupta

BUREAUCRACY, A THEORY

man in white says i am the barb-wired picket fence
and the cement wall behind the back door. 
man in white has a bark just as strong as his bite. 
man in white wakes up before the sun does and 
does not use an alarm to do so.
man in white has a heart which beats in time 
to the metronome of his file-shredder. 
man in white likes three plain wheat toasts for 
breakfast and a glass of lemon water for his stomach. 
he says men in white do not believe in lubrication. 
man in white looks like a blood-thirsty shark with 
one lazy eye and a blindfold for his ears. 
he says I am nothing but a service dog, 
an extra hand tied to a leash tied to 
you, deaf and dumb and dead and 
you, who does not know the difference between 
his blood and your blood they smell the same, 
you, with the flesh of your palm grating on the rope 
grating your skin because 
man in white took boy scouts very seriously. 
man in white wears clothes one size too large 
to fit a pocket too big to hold things which 
should not belong to him. 
man in white popped a button trying to fit 
with all the extra weight he jingles around. 
man in white tells you to stop because he 
needs breathing space. 
man in white hovers over you like a 
balloon you can never let go of. 
man in white says i have read your letters, 
says I hear you, means i can see your 
tiny mouths blabbering but give me a minute 
and see if I care, see how I forget you, see how I 
trample over your puny figures oh no
did I hurt you? man in white is a tow-
truck cum excavator cum bulldozer. 
man in white knows struggle like the back 
of his red hands taped together
his fingers dripping green dripping white
dripping every colour on the palette 
all men in white are expected to mix. 
man in white had to teach himself to 
stop emoting because straight posture 
concrete face open palms closed heart 
is how one gets through this life. 
man in white was forced to forget 
that he was born human. 
man in white forgets that he is human. 
. #Bureaucracyatheory #IITROORKEE


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