Deadly Adept Poem by Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.

Deadly Adept



Unable to endure ambiguity
Is dead set to define, categorize,
Commit assault, commit a crime -
The crime of 'fixing the limits of...'

Unfit to confront double entendre
Innuendo and delectable equivoque
Dives into settling and fixing matters
In accord with its tight cerebral space
Fearing its mental death, losing face

Impotent to withstand doublethink
Fervently puts a label, a price tag
On everyone and everything,
Dreading its own conceptive failure

Unable to outface mystery and uncertainty
Perpetrates endlessly mental dishonesty
Deforming, delimiting, blotting out...
Mutilating, injuring and desecrating...

Inept to come to face with...
Inept to look in face of...
Inept to outface it...
Is steadily defacing...
Just to keep up its 'face'...

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