SUAVE executive meets
PASTY clerk to rewrite
BYLAW for procedural clarification in the
BLINK of an eye.
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Lawyer
SUAVE self-appointed parliamentarian armed with
BYLAW and point of order and motion;
PASTY, sweaty, and pale when the meeting ends in the
BLINK of an eye.
Bad Jump
HARSH, black space—survey craft appears from jump.
SHORT peace, then crew alarms, sensors blare.
KAPPA may be constant, but tensor here shows local space evilly curved,
SOBERest of questions: far enough from black hole to claw away?
Red Ink
SHORT equations expecting numbers, but
KAPPA and x, theta and y are all that’s there.
HARSH results in red ink offer only a
SOBERing ride home.
Hopes rising
HARSH winter gales, but now sighting refuge of huts,
LADEN from successful hunt, they
SLYLY calculate the changed
RATIO: hope rising with full bellies, fears declining as hunger recedes.
Expanding waistlines
HARSH maybe to criticize plate
LADEN with chicken wings while
SLYLY suggesting weight to height
RATIO less proportional than formerly.
Demand and Supply
SLYLY promising, yet
HARSH is the delivery––the
RATIO of expectation and reality:
LADEN with a shoulder-bending burden.
Misapprehension
SORRY to report that the aging soak who tried to
TOUCH the havoc-maker for twenty dollars
WREAKed the full wrath of the latter’s
SURLY self-centred censure.
Burned Out
SURLY waiter on his tenth day in a row and a
TOUCH of a sarcastic bent not at all
SORRY for the havoc he’s gonna
WREAK on the bad tipping Applebee’s crowd.
Slipping Bonds
SURLY bonds of earth to slip, not by travel, rather to transcend,
TOUCH beyond small space, short time, escape prison of
SORRY human state–yes, its bursts of beauty, yet then
WREAKing vaster ills. Faith, cling as mover moves!