Bob the Committed and I cannot
Live up to that single-issue voter’s impatient waiting
The fleet surmise of maladjustment in the progeny say
Or the ad hoc committee for the observation of sundries
I didn’t mean to slip in that pretty slough of extras
But once the genie’s out then commences the automatic mazurka
Like numerous other toothy orators or their replicant surrogates
Stout carols about the shortages
Brief missives teeming with options
The open-ended narrative of victory and conquest
The shackles of alternatives
The awesome plenitude of the big-box store
The notes and queries of sneaky racoons and ‘possums
Investigating the darkling realms of elusive success
Deploying the materiel of Google Translate and viral rumor
While the tumid vessel slumbers sideways in the canal
The NDA applies even in the case of apocalyptic revelation

But we lack an idiom or maybe it’s aborning
To bring into its precious body
The epic paradigm of competing agendas
The word known to everyone to address
The coalition of the vaguely willing
Enlisted to construct the astronomical ziggurat
Which toppling completes the confusion of the tongues
Another hod carrier lost
Another gangly crane suspended