Completists - II

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