Quorum Present?

Do We Have a Quorum? 

Well we’re present—this hangnail

of the living contingent—and then 

there’s the unaccounted for who came

before quite likely peering in—for all 

we know—through the wood-frame

windows, eager to wipe a dust-hole 

with their thumbs and watch the goings-on

to see if we arrive at a kind 

of consensus. So to answer your question, 

yes. And speaking of questions,

theirs are ours and we carry the weight

of them in the damp manila folders

of our lives, eager to take the stand:

On behalf of all of us, then, Why

does it cost so much? Are we, 

on this end of the bench, being 

heard? And then, in a word, 

what are we going to do about it?