Questionnaire

Just a moment of your time;
a survey of your preference.
Choose option a or b,
anonymously,
no personal data required.
Now tell me please:
sacked or fired?
Oh, I see: spiral
or helix, word-of
-mouth or viral?

What? No, just a few more
questions for our reference
book on choices either/or
binarily
by random survey acquired.
So what’s your take
love or lust?
Chemistry or plain
Biology? I’ll just
write that down.

Yes, we’re nearly finished now.
Choose politeness or deference
for treatment of you or me
acronymically
by government inspired
number crunchers.
Name or number?
Perhaps by iris
or a print: finger
or retinal?