Amazonian cartage’s parousia late afternoon
We hastened to hit record lest it fleet
Miracles of rare device increasingly commonplace
Kingdom of dawn having yielded to principality of violet
As to justice law custom preference prohibition antagonism and force
Forget about adorableness or the glancing shots of admiration
We caught the cat train as we had done as kids
When balloons used to sail up beyond the trees
And debarked at the usual indefinite stop
Where new zoning restrictions had intervened
To disrupt the trade in educational materials
So that new recruits find it difficult to focus
And what might be the import of this thrice-invoked it
Continuity and discontinuity having resolved
Into matters of taste to take or leave
Manikins dancing in the klieg
Monochromatic bacchanal
And yet everything seems to work out in the end
For better or worse sometimes much worse
The notorious pothole for examples
Some folks blame the unavoidable vagaries of weather
Some attribute the duress to the machinations of unfathomable cabals
Some surrender to the futility of complaint
Surroundering the asymptotes of reference
All adopt their catalytic approach to tiptoe crawl
While many wind it out and zoom upward
Expecting by sheer velocity to rise above the schism
Whine of four-stroke overmanhood
Singspeech of an imaginary invisibility
The sudden cargo sodden friable
Crashes peremptorily to the floor
And just keeps going