Admirable Constraint

 the pentecostal fury of lemmings

knows no tell-tale badger’s libido

limited though it might seem

to the unannointed masters of destiny

drenched in penny-pinching flurries

of modular polarity

their clandestine stentors tense

the silence about blatant nodules

as rumor, as theory, as truth

transcends the furry unknown

whose pastors recite chapters perverse

to primate storage stations

safely rations currency

of the hybrids in their midst