Perplexis

Perplexis lives at three-oh-nine West Chiltonberry way
with her Seven older brothers who do nothing every day.
(For those of you who know not what a nothing need imply:
it's mainly just another word for "life without surprise,"
And if surprise is what we use to keep our lives intriguing,
then nothing is a state of mind where something's always fleeting.)

So everyday Perplexis walks to school and then to work
where her mind is always busy and her brothers do not lurk...
but every passing moment strikes another listless hour
where
  helplessly
     she watches
as her brothers' minds go sour.

Now, Lexis loves her brothers more than anyone can know,
and, with every inch they sink to waste, it tears apart her soul.
So walking home from school one day, consumed with righteous anger,
Perplexis formulates a plan to free them all from danger.
And on the morn of Halloween, with jacket bundled tightly,
She packs away her precious things and sets upon the highway.
For waiting round with hopeful thoughts has worn away her patience,
and Lexis now has set upon the trek to reparation.