private void sounds(everything) {

newLines

punch-card programs
echoing
extrapolating
competing
recursive calls

boolean thoughts
muffled
lost
in the arguments
of concert halls

fooling the void
pulses of impulse
a beat
the mind can dance to
and not another

everySingleBreath.makingSense();

stop();

this.return(methodFunction);

}

In debate over hotly contested legislation in the last few years, politicians have more and more spewed forth noble, heartwarming, selfless pleas to the effect of: “Now is not the time for ideology. Government must do what works and abandon what does not work.”

In my attempts to imagine a government actually taking actions without ideological foundation, I was made to [...]