The old get-up get-down
lost the beat,
the run-start run-stop
sticks on stop,
the go-quick gear
lost its teeth,
and the locks
on the Urinary Canal
broke down
at bottom.
But the laboratory
that develops
all the work-arounds,
fueled by gratitude
for gifts received,
shared, given, remembered
and forgotten,
still invents the plow-throughs
and ways-around
wreckages and potholes.
Switched-on requires
deliberate decisions
in constant defiance
of switched-off
and, so, go.
Go on.
