Jaal presents some light verse on NGOs
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet ---
I'm off to join the Development Set:
My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots --
I have travellers cheques and pills for the trots.
The Development Set is bright and noble
Our thoughts are deep and our vision global
Although we move with the better classes
Our thoughts are always with the masses
In Sheraton hotels in scattered nations
We damn multinational corporations
Injustice seems so easy to protest
In such seething hotbeds of social rest
We discuss malnutrition over steaks
And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks
Whether Asian Floods or African drought,
We face each issue with an open mouth
We bring in consultants whose circumlocution
Raises difficulties for every solution
Thus guaranteeing continued good eating
By showing the need for another meeting
The language of the Development Set
Stretches the English alphabet
We use swell words like "epigenetic"
"Micro", "macro" and 'logarithmetic."
Development Set homes are extremely chic
Full of carvings, curios, and draped in batik
Eye-level photographs subtly assure
That your host is at home with the rich and the poor
Enough of these verses -- on with the mission!
Our task is as broad as the human condition!
Just pray to God the biblical promise is true
The poor ye shall always have with you."
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