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...SUPREME by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON AQUATINT FRAMED IN GOLD by AMY LOWELL THE CRESCENT MOON by AMY LOWELL IN THE GARDEN AT THE DAWN HOUR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MAGRADY GRAHAM by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |