SOP Amnesia Cascade

A study that studied itself,
On its own independent shelf.
The sheet cited the log,
The log made a clog,
And the raw data verified itself.

The Director’s initials were wrong,
But the signature had them all along.
The SOP revised four
Needed those marks on the floor,
And nobody knows who’d done wrong.

No corridor led in or out.
Each room was its own roundabout.
You needed the raw
To check the same raw,
And the Tribunal left it in doubt.

The archive said, “It checks out fine.
Eleven years in recursive line.
But we won’t verify
Whether it happened, we’ll lie,
And call that a regulatory sign.”

Kindy ran the emotional test,
But the form had admitted its mess.
Both answers were logged:
Both confused, both agog,
The result was: “We’re uncertain at best.”

The handbook that cited the rules
Itself had become one of the tools.
When you checked what was real,
You found nothing to feel,
But a chain of cross-referenced fools.

For eleven long years it stayed,
In recursive loop, never swayed.
The archive accepts
Compliance neglects
That the study itself never played.

Bricky signed with his non-dominant hand,
The initials were crooked, unplanned.
He filed the deviation log
While standing in fog,
And nobody questioned the stand.

The Tribunal was asked to declare
If the study had ever happened there.
They said, “It persists,
In compliant lists,
But we won’t vouch for truth—that’s not fair.”

To verify, you’d need the proof,
But the proof’s in the same old roof.
Each source points back
To its own empty track,
And the circle resists breaking through.

Bricky signed with his non-dominant hand,
The initials were crooked, unplanned.
He filed the deviation log
While standing in fog,
And nobody questioned the stand.

The Tribunal was asked to declare
If the study had ever happened there.
They said, “It persists,
In compliant lists,
But we won’t vouch for truth—that’s not fair.”

To verify, you’d need the proof,
But the proof’s in the same old roof.
Each source points back
To its own empty track,
And the circle resists breaking through.