Which is nothing like cancel, my dearie!

Nor does it remove an offending item,

out-dated intention or bit of clutter

from existence.

It is just a personal wish, a flip of switch

that renders the evidence invisible,

into storage. Dementia’s absentia.

For posterity or purgatorial judgements

like...out of sight, out of mind,

no need for current consideration:

putting the rule-book in the cupboard,

the actual law into unspoken abeyance 

whether due to connivery, carelessness,

chance or lack of use;

while it still lurks intact in a cloud or file,

in memory or the statute books.

Without any  formal abrogation, reform

or, by dint of consensual representation,

duly witnessed, signed. proclaimed

 - unless dismantled, pronounced dead,

it still exists, indelible.

 

To cancel, is official. Authorised.

A deed sanctioned by consultative law

and cemented by consent.

A divorce, not adultery.

Some might say, honourable

others, expedient.

 

Mr Policeman is it’s proof and arbiter,

the Law-makers, it’s designer,

Mr Anyman, with a vote, funds or gun

the wherewithal.