Trained Pencils

Casual retribution
backhands without a thought
for intuition, instinct, independence;

the will is a pill, once swallowed,
doing what a sugar cube does
in a large enough lake.

Equal equivalence recovers contriteness
to make jargon a bargain of limited terms. 
Clarification marks the margins 
with confusions, questions, unrestrained pens.

Trained pencils dance 
in lines and squares
never connecting enough dots
to achieve a circle's circle.