'Stark, Raving Mad (Rev.) Poem by Margaret Alice

The crocodile is stunned beyond rescue
of all saurian aplomb; payment request
handed to least derisive official, two
weeks gone, called today to determine
resolution, informed insurmountable
obstacle on invoice has arisen

Crocodile runs around to enquire first
hand, informed by main alligator in damp
treasury swamp said quote was wrong, no
payment can be effected without change,
but once again a well-kept SECRET. As yet
no-one has yet seen offensive quote –

These officials are stark, raving mad, we
beg advice in case of delay and they
faithfully refuse. Finance is a grand
example of all Worldly Ills; run by mad
administrators who will not communicate,
brains switched off by UNDAF, PAP and CAF…