Casual Artifices

Making faces out a window
That's the nature of the relationship
Between any two eyes
I wouldn't know exactly
Being one of the two

But I smell the certainty
Of formalities lost to
Time and space and illusions
Ill-gotten pains for the 
Benefit of the continuity
Conceits for character studies

Masters and doctors waving 
Wands and slide rules at the
Door and shouting, "Get out
If you don't like it, we've been
Taking the measure of things
Since before you were scorned."