measure of use

The invisible hand is easiest to cut
No tales of gore, no evidence before
Even the man stuck in a rut
has more clout that those ignored

And for all effort and all stratagem
And against precepts of Methuselah
When blame is to fall it finds a target
randomly among us all

Ignored and devalued is the practice
Abandoned and discarded like refuse
But that is not the sum
it is not the whole
in times of trouble or excesses
we learn all is expendable
if it fits the greater whim of all