A CABINET

There’s a cabinet you’d better avoid.

Whoever has seen its contents

will get in trouble

and might risk prison.

The cabinet has never been locked.

It contains nothing but trifles:

drug prescriptions, conflicting orders,

banquet menus, assorted receipts,

notes of meetings, lists of familiar names.

These things are simply piled together.

Seeing them shouldn’t be a crime,

but at any moment the cabinet door

might display such words:

NATIONAL SECRETS!