It's not good enough! I'm not! They're not! Repetition and screed Have a lot in common Swinging hammers at nothing Throwing out the shoulders As expectations do not meet reality Ideals are insincere They'd like to live And to do so Must not be achieved When not is your watchword The knots constrain Sweating in stoppage Frightful and pained It's time to admit We are powerless over perfection Our futility has become unmanageable A lower power can return us to hapfulness The halfway done Partway finished That path not quite clear The murky water Misty air Breathing deep but not all the way down As we exercise the limits Of our desire for totality There will be progress Force times distance Apparent as our now-disregard For the diamond cages We built in our minds