<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350353" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Am A Civil Servant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a civil servant<br>That's not my real name<br>I am a baptised civil servant<br>This name puts bread on my table</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a civil servant<br>Codified to obey a set of rules<br>Straight-jacketed to obey my masters<br>For a monthly stipend as a reward</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a civil servant<br>Ordained to oil the engine of politicians<br>Who lords their policies on me<br>To serve like a chef at a banquet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a civil servant<br>My sobriquet is a bureaucrat<br>I am constantly accused of red-tapism<br>'Cos of my insistence on procedures</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a civil servant indeed<br>My masters blame me for any misdemeanor<br>My people accuses me of collusion<br>I am just a scape goat at both ends</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a civil servant par excellence<br>I am just a loyal and dutiful citizen<br>No nation can survive without me<br>Yet I am hardly appreciated<br>I am seen as rodent in a farmland</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am always available to serve my country<br>I am ready to serve the political divides<br>I am an uunbiased umpire<br>Soldier go, soldier come<br>The barrack is immovable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a loyal civil servant<br>Used like fresh rain water in the morning<br>Thrown away as dirty water at night<br>Condemned to paltry periodical pension<br>To survive for the rest of my life<br>That's my reward for being a loyal servant</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Babatunde+Aremu">Babatunde Aremu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350353" data-title="I Am A Civil Servant de Babatunde Aremu" data-description="I am a civil servant That's not my real name I am a baptised civil servant This name puts bread on my table I am a civil servant Codified to obey a set of rules Straight-jacketed to obey my masters For a monthly stipend as a reward I am a civil ..."></div> </div> </div>

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