Functional Poetry

Did form come first? Or did it follow function?
Eggs did come before chickens, since you're asking.
Let me persuade you, though, that function is what followed.

What right have I to challenge, at this junction
clichés that permeate our language?  They are basking
in platitudes.  Both commonspeak and hallowed,

as if there is a body that would sanction
and sanctify their "truisms".  Their unmasking
is surely not an enviable chore. They're swallowed

without a speck of doubt.  Well, the expunction
of platitudes and truisms -- that's my tasking
so writings are no longer sunk or shallowed

by them.  What argument do I intend to proffer?
Look up Lamarck and Darwin, that's my offer.