"The business and trading of service and objects
The subject of study, the study of elements
Exits and strategies, selling and buying and telling the truth
Lying patient and crafty and generous
Laughing at want in the season of drought
Somebody steps in and somebody wants out

The trip ticks, clicks, scarlet-clad subjects
The monks and the priests had a chance to get
Weak-kneed and eloquent
Silence and prayer and wheels spinning
The prophets sawstraight through the evidence
Into the heart and the truth of the penitent
Few find the narrow path, laugh at the aftermath
Uncorked and unstrung and unmade by human hands."
                        -Lyrics to "Once in a While" by Jonathan Reuel