Habile

Slick & sly are not bad…intentions in the air.
Guile & cunning neither; they’re only savoir faire.

Permission writ in verse: to bend, not break, the rules.
How else would one navigate lives & loves & schools?

To be fair & clear, tools are rarely unkind things.
It is how they are employed; what the user brings.

Castes can be mounted without stepping on others.
Your light’s not depending on whose else it smothers.

We’re all using our wits as we climb up each tier.
Like that cat said to young Alice, “We’re all mad here.”