4 February 2010
Reports on the radio today tell of patients believed unconscious in a vegetative state, but brain scans showed some of these people to be responsive to spoken questions, aware but frustratingly inert.
Reports also covered the frustrations of the public that only a minority voted for the government yet they act as if having a god-given remit, and that there was no way for them to influence the actions of whoever is elected.
Increasing transparency, like the Iraq enquiry, only increases the sense that politicians, once elected, are beyond public control.
Do we live in a vegetative State?
The Vegetative State
No conscious sleep
Could be this deep
Hearing, feeling, mute
Aware of all
Within the hall
Responsive as soft fruit
Skull-trapped and impotent
See transparent government
Unmoved by public, shoot
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