The Most Efficient Bureaucracy Ever Seen Poem by Margaret Alice

I’m so delighted by the new form for
obtaining authorisation for carrying
out the job we were assigned to do,
five signatures only required, rather
a disappointingly small number, but
I’m sure it will soon be rectified –
when-ever a problem rears its ugly
head, we’ll appoint another person
to check, it provides such a lot of jobs
to make sure not a cent more is spent
than should be paid out – for that reason
we’ll appoint another five new Directors,
with medical and pension and a goodly
salary – all to ensure that everyone
adheres to all the regulations, that the
rules are never bent – though we spend
a fortune; not a single extra cent will be
paid to a service provider – spending a
thousand a day in the service of
transparency and the saving of a rand
or two, will make us the most efficient
bureaucracy ever seen – and that is the
height of our ambition, without procedures
we are set for perdition!