He is not yet the Minister,
nor the Deputy Minister,
or even the Assistant Deputy Minister.
He is the newly appointed
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister,
with a lengthy –
and no less challenging –
list of responsibilities.
One hopes
he will get an assistant.
(Editor’s note: Poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
