By: KJ Hannah Greenberg

Omnishambles

Some situations involving poor judgment cause chaos. These sorts of disorders
Can convey disastrous consequences such that even technocrats stay impotent;
Ruling parties’ cones of vision are likely limited to less than acute angles. Also,
Their buccal-style expressions smother maximum “erms” uttered by committed
Auditors. Especially when such high & mighty souls gurn at followers, they’re
Less credible than seagulls eying picnic remnants, more suspicious than felines.

Consider how often voters receive news of affairs subject to legislative whims,
Else read about increased taxes, decreased freedoms, other forms of sanctioned
Trouble evoked by would-be tyrants’ friends. Whether deportations or needless
Strictures, these tribulations unsettle both blue and white collar folks, occasion
Children missing school, dads crying, mothers working double shifts. No nation
Built on denizens’ exertions prospers when suppression overthrows opportunity.

Blithe

Puppies might manifest cheerful indifference.
Hamsters stay casual about forming bonds.
Cats, however, nearly always, seemingly,
Exist carefree without worries, maintain
A disregard for other critters’ opinions.

Like our animal companions, we can
Be buoyant, or, at best, pretend some
Jocundty. There’s no need for being
Heavy-hearted, else morose. Sorrow
Ought to be tagged for timid publics.

Misery, its chum, discontent, needn’t
Be sovereigns. Rather, gaiety, joviality,
Merriness can be invited to administrate.
We lack paws and tales but should satiate
Ourselves with high-spiritedness, anyhow.

Elicitation

Drawing out information, from surreptitious persons, continues
To be akin to threading cowhide through beading needles.

After all, shadow interrogations tend to force unimaginable
Suggestions into the minds of unsuspecting targets.

Preys’ nonverbals, beyond any articulated motes, provide
Analysists with truths. Eliding’s never discounted.

Even berthas hide no motion of lips, chin, upper throat,
Given agents’ intention to solicit familect secrets.

On balance, no satori’s ever derived from scraping
Layers of meaning from dissolute prisoners.