Writing the minutes
Friday, October 8th, 2004 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThe Cabinet rose and left from their meeting,
The Assistant Secretary, amid the seating
Drafting minutes from notes, and from memory fleeting.
His job to record for posterity's sight
What he thought that the Cabinet thought,
And in writing it right,
What they thought that they ought to have thought.
The Assistant Secretary, amid the seating
Drafting minutes from notes, and from memory fleeting.
His job to record for posterity's sight
What he thought that the Cabinet thought,
And in writing it right,
What they thought that they ought to have thought.