Metrics of Care

Haikus

Everyone got pinged
therefore everyone was fine, right
wrong room, nice dashboard

Care ritual complete
strain slips into side channels now
where no pane can stare

Coverage is not
comfort, though the chart forgets it
every quarter end

Serotonin Sam
adds a pane and loses bodies
between the bright bars

Measured kindness loops
like a ceiling fan at dusk
air moves, heat remains

Perfect coverage rate
real pain walks around the camera
and waits in the hall

Check-in scheduled, sent
relief never clocked in here
still the graph got lunch

Metrics of Care is
a dangerous beautiful phrase
fit for empty rooms

Ritual can help
until it pretends to be
the whole wounded thing

If the dashboard glows
while the hallway still feels cracked
trust the hallway first