as a footnote
long before the prime minister became prime minister
I was invited to acknowledge to his face
that he would become prime minister "one day"-
well that day came and went...
my refusal at that time
and many a refusal subsequent
was based on histories of people
that used to make history themselves -
their discourse had evaporated
sort of by force...
yet history made yet another turn
and the discourse of the one
has turned into a 'spiritual' subtext
of yet another prime minister
in other words, while the essence
of both their discourse was well packaged
preserved sustained within a series of people
it was forever nothing but an unprincipled floating