parse

they speak in code
in cryptic form
in-jokes and
portmanteau
secret syllogisms
abstruse argot
& indecipherable idioms aplenty

they build a babbling bubble
a patchwork wall of words
unassailable
so alone
yet surrounded
fixed in perplexity
as if in amber

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the world
eavesdrops
latter-day Turings all
struggling with the enigma
an acrostic cryptograph
written by sphinxes

the world
uncomprehending
try though it might
with all its might
will never alight
on the answer

will never parse
the poetry of them