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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAUCER; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW BRIDAL BALLAD by EDGAR ALLAN POE |