Queen À La Marie Antoinette Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Come, let us toast, today and evermore,
Madame La Pompadour - Queen à la
Marie Antoinette - of Civil Servants

When continuous absence without leave
was revealed Management refused to be
blamed and called her breach of Labour

Regulations a regrettable psychiatric event
managers prove they were innocent by
rewarding her innovative behaviour

Building her a new office so she can come
and go as she wants, accountable to no-one,
no manager thus in dereliction of duty

Let us toast the eternal reign of the Miracle-
Working Madame La Pompadour, Scourge
of all Government Departments

Teaching common, inferior civil servants the
meaning of her New Imperial Reign over
Labour Relations!