You are the secret conscience of the age.
Your power is confirmed
in the milkman's punctuality.

A bestiary catalogs
bests. The mediocres
both higher and lower

A bitter pill
doesn’t need
to be swallowed

Again and again
he wrote the
character for his name

Slip is one
law of crash
among dozens.

For we want to make off 
with things that are not
our own. There is a pleasure

Much
of life is Dutch
one-digit operations

Mrs. MacAdam who hired the waitresses
told me to buy white shoes, three metal
grommets, safety pins, hairnets, said

When they are there,
I eat pears, says Mrs Last,
who likes pears best

One can’t work
by lime light.
A bowl full