Bel Kaufman Quote

The ceiling fell? The ink ran dry? A student dared to smile?
Of every new disaster
I prove myself the master
By sending out more circulars, more circulars to file!
A missing kid? A kissing kid? A paper on the floor?
For every major crisis
One remedy suffices:
More circulars, more circulars, to put into a drawer! A crowded cafeteria?
A substitute's hysteria?
A visitor from Syria?
A missing Book Receipt? I merely send out circulars
To add to other circulars
To add to other circulars
Numerical and neat!

Part III, ch. 16 (Paul Barringer) - Up the Down Staircase (1965)