[n] obstruction of progress, especially in verbal argument
delay, hindrance, holding the floor, interference, opposition, postponement, procrastination, stonewalling, talkathon
Pointless: [adj] ridiculous, senseless
absurd, aimless, around in circles, fruitless,
futile, going nowhere, impotent, insane, inconsequential,
ineffective , ineffectual, insignificant, in vicious circle,
irrelevant, meaningless, needle in haystack, nongermane,
nonsensical, not pertinent, on treadmill, powerless,
purportless, remote, silly, stupid, trivial, unavailing,
uninteresting, unnecessary, unproductive, unprofitable
useless, vague, vain, worthless
the right to say as much
as can possibly be said to stop
the flow of others have opinions
we must express through
verbal exchange of meanings
weaving the tapestry of civilized congress
from filaments of words strung through time
so: this world constructed of headless
human hot air balloons making light
of greenhouse gases only poisonous
en masse we raise our piles of discard-
ed verbiage by the tonnage to clog
up landfills already leaking toxic
ideology all spilling over coating
seals in petroleum-based insulate against
the hazardous mediaterials that nonetheless
seeps sans habeus corpus through
the sacrosanctity of individualism
is words flung haphazardly out of
the phone book to a deaf audience
each looking for a life mate in the classifieds
who will help them decide
whether death in utero or by comatose
starvation should ride alongside the miscarriage
of congressional oversight of birth right
in our immoral value system—
itized deception and ideological
Texas-sized gerrymandering—the gathering together
of disparate points to construct a faith-based
point of departure
leaving yesteryear for the nonexistent overpopulated
exis/tinction in tomorrow’s Gaia
organizations we know out of whack
putting the strugglers out of work almost
until they have filled an emptying room full
of outcry against the endless reach of
evangelical whiteness bleaching the four
corners of the world with a singular
and so undermined democracy without
the possibility of dissent descending into
easily-replaceable perpetual obsolescence
of entropy-defying mechanisms almost
as though human cresence needed another excuse
to be suicidal on a 1 to 10 scale
of one species decimating the odds
are with us in this victory somehow death
seems only dignified in its corrupted
assemblage of individual meanings
one think tank thought-muted voice-over raising a fist
to beat down the nongermane word—
what is unrestricted
is not free
it is just the only
chance we’ve got