THE COMMITTEE

Oh give me your pity; I’m on a Committee

which means that from morning to night.

We attend and emend and contend and defend

without a conclusion in sight.

We confer and concur, we defer and demure, and reiterate all our thoughts

We revise the agenda with frequent addenda and consider a load of reports.

We compose and propose, we support and oppose, and points of procedure are fun.

But though various notions are brought up as motions,

there’s still very little gets done

We resolve and absolve but never dissolve,

since that’s out of the question for us.

What a shattering pity to end our Committee

for where else could we make such a fuss?