Paper and People

The paperwork is piling, not to be ignored,
The people are queuing, not to be ignored.
The paper's gobbling up my time,
The people jealously try to keep up.
The people want something to be done,
The paper too, by an explicit deadline.
The people have complaints to lodge,
I give them the appropriate paperwork.

Some days I have paper days, where all I seem to do is paperwork. Other days seem to be people days, where I attend to the needs of many people. I don't plan them that way, that's just the way that they work out. So, the title came to me first and I started writing two lines, where the paper and the people wanted the same thing. After four, I reversed the order. Then , the last line came to me implying that one generates the other in some self-perpetuating circle.