Confidence pen: scribbling desiderata notation Happiness and silence in copyright rancor Care not, public-mind, for the moneyed interest Of those who submit to you, humbly, inscriptions Hollow linguistic fancies are worn beneath shoes Socked in faces who appear beside lonely mirror stares Ungainly milieu, thematic, métier from the bowels Of an instrument of investable misery He who hath wrought limitations on liability Shall suffer the imperfections of an unaccountable soul And yet religious notions caterwaul across shattered roof tiles Stylistic mysticism argues for font adjustments Assuming the posture of mid-century ad-madness Drunk on manipulation, threaded through papers Shoved out car windows on meandering, suboptimal routes From there to here in under fifty years: plow the digital snow Into piles and melt the record down, into diamond-oil, Burned thick on the horizon, purple-green sun transition With a message for the messes massing silently on screens Fingers tap out dance-prayers, illiminal thoughts Useful, physical, real in a feeling sense, borne on the windy mishhead A calamity fit to the times, all the rues emit to hint