In hurry,
worry broods
to flavor water
with alkaline
assiduity.
In slurry,
slush hushes
avid voices
asking off of
liquid murk.
Given gas,
can solids imagine
plasmatic indifference
to the vagaries
of timed
space?
Slovenly poets
scrabble; to scribble
is only possible
in pen and paper's
drink.