SPY

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes,

Don’t mention your move before you make a move,

Spies go undercover,

They take on different personas,

The birds are the eyes of heaven,

The flies are the spies of hell.

I’m almost incapable of lying,

I’d be a terrible spy,

Waiting. Like it or not, it’s a skill all spies have to master eventually,

I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life,

I don’t like being in the spotlight,

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well,

Friends don’t spy,

True friendship is about privacy too,

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn’t I have flown directly into Beijing?

I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now,

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

The life of spies is to know, not be known,

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence,

That’s the thing about spies,

Most of the secrets we keep are from each other,

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world,

Always undermined in terms of recognition,

Unfairly so, it’s a world that needs women,

The Spy act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

In my head, I think I’d make a perfect spy, but in reality,

I don’t think I’d fare very well,

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut preferably at the same time,

From the outside, the RAW seems pretty exotic,

But from the inside, it’s a big bureaucratic place,

Think post office with spies.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility,

We can do more for the people if they are not so aware of what we are trying to do,

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population,

He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I’m a holy man minus the holiness, Hand that on to your three spies,

Tell them to put it in their pipes,

I wasn’t a spy,

I’d have been spotted in five seconds,

Yes, I was in intelligence,

But that covered a multitude of things.