Ira Will Not Be Attending the Meeting

He is practicing a gesture.

So much of life is practicing gestures.

So much of living is evaluating

Those around you for signs of damage.

Now it is night, morning’s a blink away.

Sleep is sometimes thought of

As an avalanche of repair gnomes

That attends your pit stop.

Would that we were sleeping now!

Viable alternatives will be reviled

Until the point of no return is passed.

The only reasonable course of action

Is to look for sizeable flotsam,

Redo the resume, learn a martial art.