after listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen...

[ideallyinvested]

Considering your position, Mademoiselle, it seems fitting for me to highlight this:

Poetry is and should be used to reflect the world around us. So as to mirror ourselves in the world that is ours, the one which we must make our own. Politics and poetics are not mutually exclusive and one should not negate the other. Rather, poetry is a weapon wielded by any talented politician, as politics remain a subject that should be touched upon by all gifted writers.


- Philippe Barrault

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[population_ctrl]

[What a load of--]

[population_ctrl]

[Sigh. The things we do...]

[population_ctrl]

Roses are red?

[ideallyinvested]

Well. Of course poetry comes in many shapes. We aren't talking nursery rhymes here, Jean Louis!

[population_ctrl]

Literal interpretation is an ever-present danger, isn't it? [Shrug.] I did my best.

[ideallyinvested]

And your guess would have been fully applicable, had our job been to nurse the nation.

[population_ctrl]

Sometimes, they have me wondering.

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[ideallyinvested]

Now, now.

[Chuckle.]

[ideallyinvested]

We stand before the challenge of combining a need for support and a cry for independence into action.

[population_ctrl]

Ah, Philippe. It's a process, surely. Nothing more.

[ideallyinvested]

The importance of empowering the population must not be belittled. As leaders of a nation, we are servants, not dictators.

[population_ctrl]

Well-put, State Minister. We're not here for the sake of vanity.