Best Officialdom Poems

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of...

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Sylvia I was christened
And for sixteen years it suited fine.
It was then I started working
Where another had this name of mine.
"To avoid confusion"some bright spark said
"Why not call the original(fifty year old)Sylvia by her name
And the new one junior instead"
Well I was most indignant,teenage ego...

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A dish issue is whether the verb forms a series of events containing two or three ingredients. Ingredients are often officially interesting when placed. And material such as Velcro is very very useful when balancing on a widespread bed of crockery. Well cook then. Worldy...

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"Pack the chairs,no souls will be entertained here",
Politics is stealing the future of scholars,
The faith is rather picking blemishes from religious pillars,
Can't make it plain to them of my changed mind,
Grew up along the coast,
Education wasn't a key boast,
Chasing money and abiding to words from...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXXI - 81

IF ever I had a country, a country without even a single Shredding Machine

And if ever I were elected/nominated/appointed by the powers that be SPEAKER of the Lower House of Parliament whose power to shine however...

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Seventy two millimetres of giant oink isn't a mild fashion statement. It is a hook and curve with two crevasses. A creche in a canyon jump is a dramatic effort of tree construction. A limpet lump can bring much luck to a tulip who smiles...

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An hour ago
At the embassy
Fleets of steels sighing
Protracted protocols prying
Exodus of seekers of greener pastures murmuring
Hanging hangars rusting and resting
Busy bees bullying deterioration
Officials posses with officialdom
Cabs crowing
Heads heavy with thoughts
Eyes lacerated with tears
Wives in sack-cloths
Sympathizers gulped down dry gins
As the blue bird landed from the...

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And when it ends suddenly, unexpectedly,
You start to count.
First on the days, then the hours - then
Just counting until 100
Then
Beginning            again.

The dead find their faces
The living count faces
      ...

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It is in the petty dribble of officialdom
the authoritarian contempt
snarls it’s canine hate of standardization

Vindictive in the files of paperwork
the red tape cold blooded ribbon 
of your demoralisation

Faceless, emotionless
regurgitated institution
the implacable tax on being human

Each printed facet of a fascist regime
a suckling vampire at the...

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A fat grassland is neither a wasteland nor a heather mountain. It is wise to twirl a large ink dotted feather flock to the sky uniformed but not adhering to dress codes of societal norm. When norms are very nautical nowadays and can disappear and...

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Now the enemy is a vague foggy ghost
brought so readily and intimately to the forefront
those well-known unknown faceless pernicious enough
a hidden host in a wanted posters photograph
come they have to invade your homes
to run their chill spike so wickedly
down the middle of your spine
as we...

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Bureaucracy comes...
But it never seems to go
It brings along attached to it
Endless tales of woe
Copious piles of paperwork
(Mostly useless forms)
And calls that go unanswered
Are typically the norm
You quickly lose your rag
But you know there's no escape
What you need are giant scissors
To cut through that red...

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'Twas the night before tomorrow
And the morning after that.
Father Time passed by discretely, 
Didn’t even tip his hat.
The calendars of bygone years
Stacked up to nothing much.
The women I’d been cozy with
Keep mostly out of touch.

Can’t measure by semesters
With a stale curriculum. 
Can’t reckon by elections
And...

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Antidote of officialdom dew. Wow. Amazing. Little the latter and a speckled view answers. Hath he had been. No curds
 hahahaha and now they were in a meeting
 gone gone gone. Good. Hahahaha and a sw pop round. Hahahaha and now the wooden spoon and...

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'Tis November,
Downpour!
The rain rained in torrents,
Potholes filled with flood,
Automobiles 
Snailed their way to and from,
Our climate changed.

The wretched,
Made wretched 
By corrupt officialdom, 
Famished,
Drenched, 
Huddled in makeshift shelters 
Bemoaning their sorry state.

The flood transported 
Lifeless bodies of street beggars 
To the depths of big drains.

The sirens...

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