The Orders

Language shifts to calibrate—
Where the orders are given,
Where the orders are put in,

Where the orders are taken
Where the orders are obeyed
Where the orders are shouted,

Where they come down from on high—
These are all normal orders
For the organization,

Its orderly type revealed
Through its orderly language—
In a hospital, orders

Are put in to be followed,
In a restaurant taken
To be brought out, in a church

Taken to put in for life,
At a window for pick up.
Do not mix your genres up.