A Waffle Or Two Poem by Margaret Alice

Kingsley Building offers TWO restaurants,
a waffle in the most promising one as a
promise of things to come; as for packing,
we’ve been instructed to write name and
publication of old books before ditching
them, allowed to be left in storerooms
from where they will be destroyed, BUT
we may not hand them to a new user –
procedure forbids it – Can you see why
I love red tape; why I adore bureaucracy,
making it impossible to do sensible things,
preventing common sense from mauling
stupidity, the rule is old books shall be
destroyed legitimately, NOT given freely
to the needy, that would constitute theft,
to play games so illogical makes people
happy, keeps them occupied, creates
jobs and distributes wealth, and boring
text books are destroyed all the time -
a waffle or two and I’ll smile at what
bureaucracy can do…