(I am also on a committee)

From newsletter (Age Concern April 09)

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 reiterate all of our thoughts,

we revise the agenda with frequent addenda

and consider a load of reports.

We compose and propose, we suppose and oppose

and the 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 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?