Double talk is their lingua franca
Within a laid down, set rule
And mate, if you don’t understand
You attended the wrong school

Aha, you’re not a civil servant?
Your sturdy frame explains it all
These guys I’m speaking about
Sit a lot, and when walking, stall

No, you must have misheard me
“Serpent” may be a good analogy
But these guys went to university
Unlike you, your friend and me

No, they’re not only in our country
They’re always “At battle stations”
Here and there and everywhere
And much more in the United Nations

Your question “What do they do?”
The other “Are they into a caper?”
I’m not sure. But a lot of forests are cut
To supply them reams of paper

They attend many lengthy meetings
Until someone says, “Look at the clock!”
But as for us, we’ll finish our beer,
Pay the landlord and bugger off

Dolan Fernandes
2008