Serious

Play.
Think.
Walk.
Play.
Don't work.
Think.
Instruct.
Questions,
heralds,
tributaries.
Associative assonance
carries wait.
Call it delirium 
and we have ourselves,
problems.
Blame carries its hat
out of politeness
in the room
where it happens.
Deny this:
elite handles
gripped
ripped
stripped of polymer coating
to provide the appropriate burn.
That's self-awareness,
the indulgence of the time wealthy,
a one percent whose function
is waste and want and not.
Take it for what it is:
furrowed brow
creased eyes
and quite spare;
that's how you know it's
serious.