Once Works Well was pure technology. Now it seeks merely to divert.
Pansy subjects - Verse! Opera! Domestic trivia! - are now commonplace.
The 300-word limit for posts is retained. The ego is enlarged

Sunday 19 April 2009

BB takes the hari-kiri route


MAKING AND MADE

Each finds its master. Planed, sweet-smelling wood
Succumbs to the harder, insistent saw,
Shaped and inscribed by synthetic diamonds
Manmade pretenders from no ancient world.

New worlds release an otter-smooth handle,
Hickory heft to the chisel’s sharp thrust.
Numbers define a steel blade right-angled
Aiding precisely our carpenter needs.

Simplicity sprung from myrmidon systems
Intimate gears forcing spiraling drives
Guided by maps of blind printed circuits
Carry a force that restrains and impels

Ultimate beat; the heart of production
Obedient yet to higher commands,
Hidden within the step-function action,
Muscle and sinew to master the switch.


Note: My apologies for flagging this such a long time ago. Its appearance was delayed because, in the interim, Julia had to teach me how to write a poem. Blame for its imperfections should be directed at me not at her for this - let's call it, verse - may well deserve the cliché judgement involving purses and sow's ears. Or possibly horse's...

Picture copyright 2001 by Jim Wilson