The perimeters of sanity

were foreclosed 

payments were forgotten or blatantly ignored 

The clamoring had taken root like an infestation 

in the minds of the give me your huddled masses and

gainfully glad-handed by fresh pencil-mustached pool bondsman, you know the type 

Latex and algae supremely corroded the highest jurisprudence in the nation

-the contractors eventually confessed it was their canines that ate the plans

and no penalties were sought