Numb-ers

A surge of worse curses 
the num-reliant
num-padded masses
crass to the point of over-fasted
unbroken, waiting until lunch
for the dozen is the digit
that drives one into two

So many a reset
guided by zero
gives shrift length
and fallows each meal
with cross-hatched ag
corn, syruped to the point
of crystals too hard to count

Conviction derives form
from these storms of norm
given to universes
realizing themselves
as standards
via percentages 
and their minions