Monday, September 14, 2015

The Hammer

I read an article this morning, about a future 'space station/garage' with lots of robotics to do the jobs...I just had to write this..
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My dad was a framer carpenter...an old fashioned man...and a real good man...who hustled to get jobs with just his hammer...he knew how to start at the base...with a square foundation...measure twice...cut once...he used to say...and he built a reputation...no shoddy work...if you build it wrong...you tear it down...and start over...

 And then...came the nail gun...and dipshit's shooting themselves...through the hand...firing away at birds...and dogs...or nailing their dick's to a two by four...then some slick prick endowed...with too much money...came up with a plan...to build like an assembly line...it wasn't a new idea, just a new technology...the nail gun...6 gun of robotry...
Out there...in the deserts or hills...or reclaimed ocean sand...there started...this hum of a new industry...and about a dozen guys...with nail guns...could build 400 houses...in a year...they didn't need dad...or his hammer anymore...and the lines got longer...and men out of jobs...staggered the economy...now the houses sit...rotting away...too expensive to buy...

 As the genius that thought that up...does some more darpa...craps out some more robotry...and husbands and wives sit home...twiddling...with nothing  to do...but lot's of fancy ass machines to suck away their soul...or any other dirt...or refuse...laying on the floor...no...there's nothing more to do...these days...a robot does  it for you...

 So...what's the end of this...all this ease of life...turned uselessness...this cacophony of transformation...of humanity...all tatooed up...all spiked...all wearing death's head teeshirt's...and black...alway's alway's black...is something being said here...oh don't do that...the robot does it ten times faster...better...oh dad...where's that hammer...frown...


Written by Bruce James Clyde 2015

Credit: EPA Photo/EFE/Columbia Tristar/ Robert Zucker

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  1. NeutralSeptember 14, 2015 at 10:42 AM

    Sticking it to the man with a hammer and a rusty nail. Makes you wonder what the world would be like if we just stuck to the hammer. Especially liked the part about the dipshits shooting themselves

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    1. FromdeepinthetreesSeptember 25, 2015 at 12:47 PM

      Dean...I found your comment on the Hammer poem...thank you...yeah, exactly my point...maybe we should stick with the simple stuff more...and employ people instead of machines...maybe their souls would return to talk with us again...and things would get better...that's my dream anyway...Bruce

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