Wednesday, April 7, 2021

A Rant: Teutonics in the Time of Covid (apologies to Edvard Grieg)

 

The Hall of the Mountainous Bureaucracy

 

Recycling is what the Germans do:

The paper’s gray to show it isn’t new

Throw green glass bottles here, not white glass too!

If basic sorting’s not your thing, they’re blue.

 

But filling forms out is their chiefest joy

Their second, stamping them in red or black

And saying no’s orgastic, don’t annoy

The thin-lipped, red-faced clerk or show you’re slack.

 

“Verboten!” or “Privat!” is what they grunt

Just fail to fill it out or estimate

A date, just show a failure to confront

Exactitude, and you will have to wait:

 

Oh, look up from that form and see the sun!

And turn to stone, bean-counters, one by one.


 

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