Less Imperfect from Less Imperfect by That's Science!

every little detail ain't quite right
just spoon and kiss your wife goodnight tonight
just drink one toast then switch to Perrier
instead of puking and slobbery screams and waking up to shame
signal seven seconds before you merge
letting others in on our intentions mostly doesn't hurt

a good man uses wrong adjective
crucify him, crucify him
is good deed with bad word really worse
than bloody-fisted angels and the reverse?
a secret shoulder-shrug a covert rolled-eye
can caulk a crack more tightly than insults bathed in light

words aren't powerless but they don't break a nose like a fist
contrive catastrophe out of a quip nobody benefits
burning books punching nazis
these ideologies are getting mixed

cheap new sidewalks are malnourished and cracked
but ancient poured concrete formed a stalwart slab
small blemishes on beauty don’t seem bad
have less doesn't mean Have-Nots don't have

well there are roaches in this mansion but no termites crawl
sometimes death gets scary late at night
one man's desperate fears do not a truth make
ugly reason beats shoehorned rhymes

words as end-results and not as means in a process
allies split troops instead of merging strength
intentions are nefarious, calculated
benefit of the doubt is running out

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