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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