In ancient Babylon and Assyria
The monster symbolised chaos
The king defeated monsters
And brought order to the world
Bringing water to the desert
And making plenty when there was none
In the modern world
The monster primarily chases teenagers across a TV screen
Often methodically
Often with a calculated menance
We now embody chaos
And the monster represents a cruel order imposed upon us
The holocaust was another modern invention
That was formal and bureaucratic in nature
Its victims documented, numbered, stamped, and finally destroyed
There is a monster in our culture
And its face is a seething mass
Of change requests, sign-offs, milestones, and budgetary requirements
A corporate ant-hill that functions like a particularly slow and inaccurate computer
Like the analogue calculators once used
To find the appropriate trajectory
And tabulate those numerical identifiers
Of importance to the national campaign
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