Correction

Preventing a behavior,
Your own or someone else’s,
Your own or another beast’s,

Is almost impossible,
Short of killing or maiming
The behaver. Behavior

Can drive itself, relentless
As life that unleashes it.
Drag the behaver away

And, soon as you turn your back,
They’re back, chewing the carpet,
Injecting the heroin,

Singing praises to their god
Or best-beloved dictator,
Embracing in the arbor.

Whatever you’ve tried to stop
Persists and persists, for life
Is purely recidivist.