that some have had it
with significance—
that they vastly
prefer leisure
and light refreshments
to the terror of purport
and the pity
of acceptance—
that a few would even
sooner be escorted
to their deaths,
like clouds lead
by breezes past the edge
of Earth's horizons,
than square-off with
their neighbors, pitted
monitor to monitor
and armed with the facts
from their own
private newscasts.
