Metric Casteroom

Language milligrammars identify the attentive reed
whose rustle accords to common practice.

One liter from fifteen tons and daily ingestion
engages the bacterial swarm as a mind.

Conscious referendum asks: shall another
word be scratched across the eye?

En glands, en lighter souls pretend to exist;
pen mountains scale rules to scrape law.

Meter gives cents to a hundred desk-squared
ill pups, willing studded rivet wheels.

Attention grands to kilo stand upon a lectern;
de-livered filters to drink a double dozen plus two broken letters.