Breaks don't fix themselves,
it's thermodynamics.
Broken brakes won't slow you enough
and downhill,
hairpins work in harmony with them.
After the crash
bones mend themselves, but
without intervention, like children
they'll put square pegs in round holes.
You'll limp.
Breaks require energy.
Collect the shards, melt them,
you'll recreate the windscreen.
In readiness
to be broken again.
Either way,
it's all
entropy.
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Entropy and Recycling
Re: Entropy and Recycling
Oh Colm,
I am working on a project with a Jan.20th deadline and swore I'd only look in on TTB until its done. But I have to make an exception to say how much I love this one.
I am working on a project with a Jan.20th deadline and swore I'd only look in on TTB until its done. But I have to make an exception to say how much I love this one.
Re: Entropy and Recycling
Thanks Linda
Now get back to work
Now get back to work
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Re: Entropy and Recycling
Love this Colm. The matter-of-factness blends the humor touchingly.
The poem works with or without the last two lines.
"After the crash . . . ."
The poem works with or without the last two lines.
"After the crash . . . ."