Bureaucratic Absurdity
The Census Bureau sent a card which said I was obliged BY LAW,
To answers endless repetitious, rude, intrusive, stupid questions.
I, of course, went through them all, but many asked for numbers
Which I would have had to get up from my chair and look at files
To find. I didn't want to take the effort, so the answers that I
Gave were made up, almost surely wrong, which means that what
The Bureau sought, precise descriptions of my life, and those
Of others living here, it didn't get. It should have known that,
When one asks too many questions, little ends up learned.
Poetry by Lawrence Beck
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Written on 2024-08-13 at 15:40
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