The Engine Subcommittee...
...meets, occasionally quorate,
and every Thursday evening
in the longtime beer spill backroom
of the Dog and Gun.
They consider the case for turbine rotors
the glasses of beer, the ceramic or titanium alloys
the questions of low, high and optimum temperatures
and whether the peanuts should be salted
or dryly roast. They consider the boast
of Nigel of the Flat Cap, that he can route
all the required pipes and wires
around the belfries and spires
without making a single decorated Gothic
flinch. Watch the Master of Combustion pinch
out his cigarette and say
for the thirty-seven thousandth time
that he is certain all engine components
should be situated in roofs and crypts,
and not disturb the bats, or visitor collection box flow patterns,
in any significant way.
The subcommittee has been meeting for fifteen years;
the cathedral hasn't moved an inch.
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