Growing wiser

Once I acCRUDE some understanding in this hospital, I
LEARNed that a little bitty knowledge of the
NURSE’s daily workload goes a long way to getting a
BITTY – a little bitty – more help with my post-op struggles.  

Speaker of the House

NURSE ambitions, while slamming shutters to the soul.
LEARN blanketing darkness, grinding step by step, shrink to
BITTY horizon, till there’s nothing beyond today’s desire,
CRUDE purpose, of no value to you or anyone else.

Like a vapor dispersed

SUAVE, jaunty, debonair? Or,
PASTY, uncertain, jumbled? Some
BYLAW of fate may contain the pronouncement.
BLINK, though, and whichever it is, you’ll have missed it: we are vapor.

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?