Don’t waste other peoples’ effort

How many plurals can a people have?
Can the questions of a similar group
inform the answers of a faraway troupe?
Fads and fodder for the reconstitution
Cannot guarantee a better outcome
Fallen in love with the progress narrative,
have you? Snap out of it: things may be
getting to be something other than what 
they were, but it’s an excuse to do little
to believe that you are prisoner of the arc
even if you don’t think the rain will ever end