The coming cloud sweeps all away
And both ends conduct against the middle
And drum their likely candidates
Scurrying past the simple dictum
That well begun is half done
The apothegms and the mnemonic courses
A choice of many mansions of many houses
Which they themselves never expected
Or never in any case built
The domiciliary demand for filial piety
And so a not-at-all binary choice
Occupying a space that includes
The abstract impersonal management of forces
And the tender exchange of limpid desire
But nevertheless a tendency a traction
As songs blend or clash of redwing and redbird
While other quieter melodies adorn the noon
When in the course of mundane events
It becomes necessary to elude the bottom line
To take up arms against an indifferent sea
Too great to be affected by words or gestures
Wishful thinking a quixotic attempt
Lacking the idealism of a Quixote
Posing infinite alternatives
Like noisy craft in the vacuum of space
Galaxies as sticky as pie
Or a prescription drug
Its sodden label illegible
As clothing
Foodstuffs
Modes of transportation
Mining
Manufacture
Educational materials
Employment contracts
Conflict resolution
Histories of people and their interactions
Holiday observances
Healthcare
Do-it-yourself home maintenance
Competitive and non-competitive recreational activities
Topographical features
Reticent or animated vocal speakers
Ecosystems
Commemoration of the departed
Sexual orientations
Infrastructural elements
Jurisprudence
Journalism
Politics
Commerce
Travel for business or pleasure
Organizational rationales
Agriculture
Chains of command
Temporal demarcations
Religion
Arts
Scientific inquiry
Communications media
Public safety
International affairs
Moral injunction conjunction and disjunction
And the rites mysterious of connubial love