a standard utility

of human morality

favors humility

a forewarned futility

scans for normality

a proof-less stability

a useless formality

a stab at nobility

a total banality

a wounding motility

its banal totality

a class in puerility

a hostile reality

to foster docility

that leads to fatalities

and tatters tranquility

with utter finality.

©Karen Robiscoe