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[Today, she's sitting-- ah, it seems as though she's atop a telephone pole. Not the first time she's made a post from up there, and not the first time she's been seen with birds at her shoulders. The heat still gets to her and so she's dressed very simply.
The wrist of her free hand is at her mouth and she speaks thoughtfully in her tiny, throaty voice.]
There is a phrase that I have seen and heard, and it goes like this:
A man of power can be killed by a gun.
Now it's meant to be applied to politics, it seems; should someone orchestrate, oppose, or obliterate the way in which the people live, they have a considerable amount of power, isn't that so? At least, it's commonly seen that way. People may speak up to protest that idea and I'm already aware. I am speaking of opinions that aren't necessarily my own.
With that, [and she tilts her cheek against a finch's tiny head,] a man desires more. There is another phrase that I have seen and heard: 'Power corrupts.' To be honest, I feel that it's such a common occurrence that it's become, in a word... clichéd. The burden that comes with acquiring power may take different illusory forms, depending on who it is exactly that's acquired such spoken of power. The people will say: 'Your duty is to provide for us as a group, nation, county, et cetera.' The man placed in the high position could feel differently.
Turning back toward my original point-- Hush. [A tiny black and brown bird is shaking itself and chirping as it puffs up its feathers. Once she murmurs to it, it deflates and settles atop the curve of her bent wrist.] Naaa... Right. So, a man has his power, it's all very nice, he's acquired what he's wished and worked after even if he won't truly be contented by it. A man has what he wants and regardless of that he can be killed quite easily.
Questions arise from this and the first I'll ask here is: If life will end so quickly and easily for you, is acquiring what you're after the most really worth it? How firm is your resolve, with regards to what you want? If meeting your goal meant dying directly afterward, would you still strive for it? Are you taking shots in the dark?
[Another little bird arrives, chirps and bats its wings and then settles atop her head. If she notices, she doesn't say.]
The second question has to do with your definition of power, by the way. The third question is a bit farther.
The wrist of her free hand is at her mouth and she speaks thoughtfully in her tiny, throaty voice.]
There is a phrase that I have seen and heard, and it goes like this:
A man of power can be killed by a gun.
Now it's meant to be applied to politics, it seems; should someone orchestrate, oppose, or obliterate the way in which the people live, they have a considerable amount of power, isn't that so? At least, it's commonly seen that way. People may speak up to protest that idea and I'm already aware. I am speaking of opinions that aren't necessarily my own.
With that, [and she tilts her cheek against a finch's tiny head,] a man desires more. There is another phrase that I have seen and heard: 'Power corrupts.' To be honest, I feel that it's such a common occurrence that it's become, in a word... clichéd. The burden that comes with acquiring power may take different illusory forms, depending on who it is exactly that's acquired such spoken of power. The people will say: 'Your duty is to provide for us as a group, nation, county, et cetera.' The man placed in the high position could feel differently.
Turning back toward my original point-- Hush. [A tiny black and brown bird is shaking itself and chirping as it puffs up its feathers. Once she murmurs to it, it deflates and settles atop the curve of her bent wrist.] Naaa... Right. So, a man has his power, it's all very nice, he's acquired what he's wished and worked after even if he won't truly be contented by it. A man has what he wants and regardless of that he can be killed quite easily.
Questions arise from this and the first I'll ask here is: If life will end so quickly and easily for you, is acquiring what you're after the most really worth it? How firm is your resolve, with regards to what you want? If meeting your goal meant dying directly afterward, would you still strive for it? Are you taking shots in the dark?
[Another little bird arrives, chirps and bats its wings and then settles atop her head. If she notices, she doesn't say.]
The second question has to do with your definition of power, by the way. The third question is a bit farther.