Quid Pro Quo Poem by Stefan Splawinski

ministry of eternal joy
expanded by fiscal folly
founded by elected knaves
paid for by your lolly

mountains must be levelled
every valley shall be filled
we all are more than equal
dissenters will be grilled

that you should be thankless
to those who know your needs
the experts and the minders
coordinators of good deeds

for all the social harmony
and funded cultural greed
those most blessed citizens
had forgotten how to breed

this rather caused a problem
thanks to economic decline
there was such a shortage
of taxpayers down the line

the schemes of those elected
had rather come to grief
for without massive revenues
plans were kept most brief