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Implacable
The job counselor: no, I haven't anything for you today.
There is nothing to placate him.
Because there is nothing.
You learn the logic of that quickly.
Sorry it's not there needs no follow-up.
Implacable.
The implacable parent, the implacable teacher,
the implacable social worker.
Yet, I'm so willing to appease.
I'll buy a pizza for the most difficult of appetites.
People wanting, people pushing,
people negotiating.
Therefore I teach myself that "placate" is desire.
If I want something so badly,
not stopping,
I press and plead,
leading to the implacable.
Peter is fighting with the store manager,
over a return,
too much yelling,
the reason is inflexible,
no debate needed.
Both are implacable.
Peter didn't take "no" for an answer.
What is a parent implacable about?
His or her authority.
The parent,
sympathetic as a priest,
yet implacable in some regard,
urges that rules must be obeyed.
And so they must.
Rail at fate,
rail at the guidepost, the touchstone,
because the implacable must be obeyed.
There is nothing to placate him.
Because there is nothing.
You learn the logic of that quickly.
Sorry it's not there needs no follow-up.
Implacable.
The implacable parent, the implacable teacher,
the implacable social worker.
Yet, I'm so willing to appease.
I'll buy a pizza for the most difficult of appetites.
People wanting, people pushing,
people negotiating.
Therefore I teach myself that "placate" is desire.
If I want something so badly,
not stopping,
I press and plead,
leading to the implacable.
Peter is fighting with the store manager,
over a return,
too much yelling,
the reason is inflexible,
no debate needed.
Both are implacable.
Peter didn't take "no" for an answer.
What is a parent implacable about?
His or her authority.
The parent,
sympathetic as a priest,
yet implacable in some regard,
urges that rules must be obeyed.
And so they must.
Rail at fate,
rail at the guidepost, the touchstone,
because the implacable must be obeyed.
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