Triple your work, OR cut to the chase!

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(The god of new contraptions & technologies; 

OR 

the God who made the heavens & the Earth)

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A psalm of gratefulness, for help in choosing a wise tack, and finally of celebrating understanding!

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Well, thank you Lord for helping me to do

the thing that felt like I could not get near

enough to it, without becoming poo,

or melting, shriveling to just one tear.

It feels like I have allergies to this, 

this multiplying of bureaucracies,

this fetish of the God our country is

now worshipping, we lay our-selves with ease,

prostrate ourselves, with no hint of remorse,

or push-back-ance, this is delight to us,

we relish any discomfort of course

to fully serve our God, “get on the bus”,

& get the goodies which grow life so rich

to benefit from our God's favour too

to be the first, as high priests with fetish

to be the fodder for new ways “in lieu”..

Can be “in lieu”, or else just add to what

we have already got, to just do more,

as well (not “paper rolls” alone, they’re not

too bad; we’ll add an iPad to the score*,

and when that doesn’t work, then we will just 

ignore it, and call out to office “gall” - 

no, don’t, they’re overworked and near to bust-

ing. Come this way. It isn’t working well.)

Fill this form out, then ring the phone that’s “-manned”.

but scan the document that has to be

first printed, to be signed and then re-scanned.

Another way to do it will make three!

The diff-er-ence between a thoughtful muse -

a servant who helps ev’ry one to cheer,

& one who leaves folk feeling anxious, used,

their time is wasted, and more prone to fear,

seems to me now to be a small clear switch;

Am I imagining and trying to

tune in by tiny indicators which

can let me know their feelings and their views.

And here I need your help my God & king,

to open up myself to feelings which

sometimes I would not care to know a thing

about; and they don’t seem more than a glitch.

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*  e.g. as a visitor at a government school this week I had to sign a paper register/roll, then go around the corner and do the same on an iPad; though the iPad asked for either phone number or email, but would not accept the phone number as a valid Australian number, then my host also tried it for a couple of minutes (with no better success), so I put in my email address, to no better effect, then we noticed that they were actually optional, so we wiped them out and tried it with neither, when that didn’t work after about 5min, we gave up, because I was being asked to help with a job that had to be done in a certain time. My host said that he would let the person responsible for that list know, but they weren’t in at the moment. And we ignored the additional digital protocol.

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