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The poem reduces moral categories to a hard limit: some things simply do not happen.

Its force comes from compression. 'Right & Wrong' names a familiar moral form, but the ending resists judgment in favor of blunt impossibility: some acts, decisions, or reconciliations just do not get done.

Set as 'In the form / of Right & / Wrong,' the poem delivers a flat moral limit: 'Some things / Just Don't / Get Done.' The framing of right and wrong only to dismiss action leaves the categories standing but inert.