Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy 

A System of Regulations
Red Tape, Paper Shuffling. 

Regulations,  Status quo

Bureaucracy 

Inner Circles, Imperfect Officials overworked, 
Underpaid, costly oversights caused by
Local, State, and Federal Agencies.

Bureaucracy 

Assumptions of fault finders to divide, ruled
On the regulation of the people by Jane Q.
Public and John Q. Public.

Some faces are bright and some faces are
Dimmed.

Bureaucracy
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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January 26, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Your poem got me thinking about bureaucracy... 'cracy' means 'rule.' A bureau is a bureau, of course. So, I guess the original notion was the rule of the bureau's drawers. Little has changed, eh?
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