Signature (The Retrenchment Circus) Poem by Mbusya Wa Mbusya

How could we muster the authority
Of an hypothetical State Official?

We were shown the signature
A series of anticlines,
And synclines;
Any one could have done it:
The vicar-general, vice-chancellor,
The vice-president, Post-master,
Chief-Director, Solicitor-General,
Prime- Minister...
or any other of hyphenated post!

So we bowed down to that authority-
ineligible Spartan sentence
Saying nothing but meaning a lot.

A question went around
On how to verify that signature,
The authenticity of a disappearing official,
Answer was supplied,
And went around
‘Let's coax the secretary'!