There are those for whom many problems
are resolved through few solutions
No paradox.
No ambiguous outcome.
Deliberation is dalliance.
The terrorist was killed by obliterating several buildings.
What their instruments abjure
enables a sheen of success;
in that smaller spectrum
success is unmeasured failure,
complexity distraction.
The father dies and the son is resolved of duty.
Legislators draft laws
in a bubble of finality
bereft of experiment or conditionality:
popularity is the final arbiter,
power shouts down the empirical
This season's bumper corn crop disproves soil science.
Fetus of the future murderer is saved.
July 2011