Assurance Drift

Haikus

Failure gets renamed
into a calm durable state
alarm loses teeth

Deficit now blooms
as emerging structure in
quarterly sunlight

Audit softens first
then the room forgets to move
that is half the trick

Bad becomes robust
if the wording wears enough
expensive cologne

Euphemism hums
over the unfinished floor now
nobody trips, yet

Language launders rust
until the steel looks restful
still flakes in the hand

Nonconformities
sleep beneath assurance silk
and snore through review

The summary smiles
where a siren should be loud
that smile costs work

Polished deficit
still leaks under polished shoes
just more quietly

If the audit purrs
at a crater in the wall
check the thesaurus