The+One+Thousand+Page+File+(Nicole+Gololobov)

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When the bureaucrats took over Happyland They enslaved humanity  with paperwork Every act, every plan needed permission There was even an existence request file All documents were stamped by the office Plunging the state into a state unnerving

But not all was stupid or unnerving Low was the crime rate  in Happyland You had to credit the crime request office Organizers of sick-minded paperwork Not because police could catch who wrote the file It was just hard to get permission

One day, a killer is given permission Leading the film down a path unnerving They had completed the one thousand page file Now, the lunatic runs free through Happyland Only the law <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> can stop them, not paperwork <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But the law is ruled by the office

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Waiting for approval from the office <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As foiling a crime requires permission <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sunken eyes scan over <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> the paperwork <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">One officer finds the delay unnerving <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why must there be these walls in Happyland? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why are our fates bound by the file?

Meanwhile, vile criminal, signer of the file Hunts the poor soul <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> damned by the office <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Having been raised in bureaucrat Happyland <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">They don’t see this as wrong; they have permission <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To do what should be seen as unnerving <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Because there’s a check on the paperwork

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A dystopic thriller with paperwork <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With more than one villain, more than one file <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And Bollywood influence most unnerving <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In the trapped, confined spaces of the office Conflict rests <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> on the murderous permission <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And the cursed society of Happyland

People unnerving, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">controlled by permission <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This is how paperwork destroys Happyland <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Where the world is an office, a life a file