Ingenuity

Ingenuity

Someone decided that most guitars should have five strings.
Prior to hydraulics, who would have visioned oil in a cylinder
raising the heft of a ship in the locks, except the rogue mind?

Fit to an evolved slot of existence, brains differ in imagination.
Some know the boundaries, and others defy them in abandon.
Eyes are intended to see, but the mind is prior to all of this.

Beethoven wrote symphonies, hearing none of the applause.
Helen Keller came to know more than most will ever perceive.
What is it that tells the mole to burrow? Potatoes to be buried.

We read our own astrological chart in the morning newspaper
without a thought to the assured movement of orbiting planets.
Someone decided that poetry should have a consistent meter.
 
Then someone else added that last line, signifying everything. 

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