Unknown Characteristics

I am a 10-year veteran of disaster remediation.
There is no reliable data for this operation.
The operation has to be planned from scratch.
Speak only in the most general terms.
Reaveal nothing of value.
This is so secret I can’t call my wife for 8 weeks.
I face an even more dire situation than my predecessor.
My steps squelch in this effluent.
I crave a footfall that squishes.
I want dynamic action and patriotic sacrifice.
I loathe a fretful denouement.
I fear the consequences.
I remain determined …
Yet undecided.

What I’m Reading:

“… the young man who refused police 
a description of the car that fired and sped away. 
As if to protect someone. As if his shooter 
were more a community than the police 
our country fashioned of itself.”

— Paul Hlava Ceballos / “ER S/P GSW”