THE COMMITTEE MEMBER

Oh give me your pity, I'm on a committee
Which means that from morning to night
We attend and amend and contend and defend
Without a conclusion in sight.

We confer and concur, we defer and demur
And re-iterate all our thought
We revise the agenda with frequent addenda
And consider a load of reports.

We propose and compose, we suppose and oppose
And points of procedure are fun!
But though various notions are brought up as motions
There's terribly little gets done.

We resolve and absolve but we never dissolve
Since it's out of the question for us.
What a shattering pity to end our committee
Where else could we make such a fuss?