People generally wish to put a favorable construction
Upon those tesserae so seemingly seamless
But harboring nevertheless certain interstices wherein
Indeterminate processes take place often not at all
Conducive to either the specific or the general welfare
As for example those decisions you can hardly call them
Decisions made by individual drivers
On the busy highways and byways unmasterable
Or the endless streams of data that itemize
Their bodies their preferences their social niches
The vagaries and variations of the human organism but
Sometimes just sometimes as the late comedian had it
Impertinent to the exterior texture but eminently pertinent
To something nice notwithstanding the vitreous glazes
The plates of clay high roasted in the perilous kiln
The strong cement
How as even amid that ostensibly closed system called system
Physicians’ assistants doctors nurses nurse practitioners
And the manifold host of hygiene examination and procedure
Check-in discharge vital signs history and transportation
Not infrequently reach mutual understanding
With that nexus of vulnerability that person
Now systemically designated a patient
Or as a well-scrambled egg or Bacchus and Ariadne
Or a double play even if carried out by the opponent
So that like James Brown I break out in a cold sweat