'Role Of Idiot 24/10/2009 Poem by Margaret Alice

Pratchett said the devil caught the ancient
Aztecs and Maya* making it too easy for the
common people to reach heaven in a happy
death through their practice of live human
sacrifice, it was all wrong

To create hell on earth they were instructed
to strive to improve the lot of their fellow men
their unimaginative attitude used to invent a
hellish bureaucracy, turning the minds of a
continent into sludge

Administration is the devil’s own invention
to kill the spirit, tonight I briefly escaped by
watching A View To A Kill, James Bond es-
caping a fire, climbing down a ladder with a
girl draped over his shoulders

Not a mark on her dress, high-heeled shoes
never lost, hair magnificent; this is what life
should be like, I wish to be blown up since
I cannot wear high-heels and striking hair,
living the half- life of a zombie

A member of the undead, no mind left, heart
cold, only the brain automaton carry on,
swallowed by the snake of mediocrity,
required to play the role of idiot
in life’s charade

Terry Pratchett “Eric” Vista Edition 1996
Quoted from p.57

*Aztecs and Maya called Tezumen in “Eric”