Sobriety, not mine, makes the case for / against boredom in semi-dirge, that is, in the poem-making venture. Boredom? Blame it on our near relatives, the empire-prone who once rode escalators up and down the Radisson close by.

Sociologists are stepping up and nodding off
Under the influence of futon cramps at home owing to driving similar vehicles to work
Transporting pouti debs and elephant men,
Dostoevsky wrote.