Best Diplomats Poems

With bare, bone-dry bureaucratese,
       can camouflage their intentions;
with official cordialities,
       can disguise their inclinations;

can bury their predilections
       with layers of formalities;
can rein in strongest emotions
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Diplomats are tireless negotiators.
At table they exercise conviviality –
not for peace or harmony –
rather over caviar, champagne, and oysters.
Food, they avow, is a better panacea
than interminable diplomacea.
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