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                                     ­   Navigating the Rules

                        Everything not forbidden is compulsory

                           -T. H. White, The Book of Merlyn

The rules are immutable and absolute
Except when they’re not. The rules this week
Are whatever the powerful might say -
Questions are a burden; simply obey

Accept that whatever you think is wrong
To the truculent who disapprove of you
For you are outdated, a relic, a prat
And you are wicked to disagree with that

Anything in your defense that you might urge
Is now a forbidden ism subject to purge