Chronicling the favorite activities and procedures of bureaucrats

• Editor: A.S. Kaswell, Harvard Bureaucracy Club.™
• Executive Editor: Marc Abrahams, Annals of Improbable Research.

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Volume 23, number 3

Special Issue: Bureaucracy Haiku by Robin Pearce

This special issue presents the first of a many-part series of bureaucracy haiku by the noted bureaucratic poet Robin Pearce.

The opinions and observations expressed here represent the opinions of the poet and do not necessarily represent the views of those who hold other opinions or have other observations.

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Haiku A-901

Acronyms drop from
The lips of the consultants
Like cherry blossoms.

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Haiku A-921

Afternoon meeting:
A PowerPoint slide show and
Au Bon Pain cookies.

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Haiku A-946

A cell phone shrills and
Hands rummage through briefcases:
Who is it? Me? Me?

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Haiku A-962

The speaker drones on.
We listen, but think of what?
Food. TV. Sex. Sex.

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Haiku A-970

Symphony at six
When all the cube farm dwellers
Sync their Palm Pilots.

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Haiku A-971

Critical error:
Team meeting at eight a.m.-
No bagels ordered.