Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KING COMMITTEE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: I'm the nice demure congressional committee
Last Line: Stick my tongue, a mite sarcastic, in my cheek
Subject(s): United States – Congress; Wit & Humor


I'm the nice demure Congressional Committee,
I'm the most convenient creature ever made;
I'm a being without human love or pity,
But I'm very good at bargaining and trade.
I can take the wisest Bill and knock it silly,
I can bring the greatest cause to dire defeat.
I can make the noblest statesman, willy nilly.
Come and bow in low petition at my feet.
I'm a marvel at obscurity and hiding,

I receive an Act, and lo ! it disappears.
In my cubby-holes capacious are abiding
Nearly all the Bills of many, many years.
I discuss them, calm and cheerful, if I choose to.
Give a hearing, or a dozen, if I wish;
But report them back to Congress I refuse to.
And to every mild request I answer, "Pish!"

I'm an Irresponsibility in power,
I'm anonymous, or what amounts to that;
I'm Democracy's most modest little flower.
But I make the People wonder where they're at.
For the nation and the State, the farm, the city.
All may want a thing, but all of them are weak
When I, the calm Congressional Committee,
Stick my tongue, a mite sarcastic, in my cheek.





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