What we can learn from alien machinery.
Align the fixing lugs with care. Keep clothing,
loose ideas and hair out of the works.
Don't shirk responsibilities, you are
the only one who can maintain
your interior landscape. See how
the Centaurian Enveiglatron turns on
every nineteen and three-quarter hours, to brew itself
a cup of lukewarm surface-cleaning gel.
Try not to dwell upon a single goal
you can't control the quirks of fate and chance
see how the Nuclear Inflectionoid will dance
around alternative solutions and quest
not only for a task done well;
it's also seeking grace,
and to stop with every tool-head facing west
--we don't know why it does that,
and that's a lesson too!
There will be things you do,
simply part of you,
without a deeper meaning. Do not ignore
the urge to laugh, or waltz,
or merely don your coat
with a perfectly unnecessary flourish. You are a you
and like the Pseudo-de-crenalator
you're the only one we have.
So nourish yourself. Make a scene, a song. a plan...
If you're not being you, then who the hell else can?
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