Biometry

Expostulate about the pointlessness
Duplicated but self-referential
Viciously futile and in that sense
It spreads and spreads

Nothing useful may do something harmful
It survives simply because it survives
Fundamentally suggesting only the arrangements
The world willy-nilly

Mischievous or evil
By-products or symptoms
Sometimes manifestations of pure malice
Designed to kill us or make us suffer

People humming and whirring
The whole elaborate paraphernalia
Is enough to understand
First that every second is identical

Who manufactures those humans?
Elephants, cherry trees, and mice?
Flowers put into the world?
We are closing in on a definitive answer

You will understand that I wish to leave you
More roundabout, analogous
An essential part of the efficient
Execution of message