Wednesday, January 15, 2003

OFFICE OF LEGAL SERVICES, ACCESS

OFFICE OF LEGAL SERVICES, ACCESS & FAIRNESS PROGRAMS DEPARTMENTAL MEETING
JANUARY 15, 2003, ROOM 4A - 10 AM TO 12 NOON (plus...)
(inspired by Matt’s sonnet)

The meeting grinds.  The minutes last for days,
agenda creeps along at snail’s pace;
I plead in silence with the things I praise
that I be favored with restraint and grace.
I have no interest, knowledge or concern
for anything that anyone has said;
It seems the goal is not to share and learn
but just to drone till all of us are dead.
A million thoughts are jostling my brain
as sugar and caffeine disrupt my thought
It’s hard to tell if I have gone insane
or if this is a trap in which I’m caught.
The clock is running backwards.  I endure,
amuse myself with fantasies impure,
while factoids drop to earth like worthless spoor -
bureaucracy is illness without cure.