system of us

Do you know what this country really needs?

We need a department or agency,
an office or bureau of you and me,
and you could be acting secretary,
and I could be special officer -
or agent, or bureaucrat, deputy
- depending on what we call this thing
and what kind of funding has been approved,
for what they expect us to oversee

and to overdo.

I expect we'll find

we're entrusted with broad, sweeping powers
within
certain purviews and baliwicks, nebulous
and undefined,

and we'll seize all the power
we're given, and we'll

interpret it strictly beyond all sense,

and we'll make do. And once they all see -

we'll stand forth and bask in the consequence.