SOMETIMES SIMPLE IS BEST

SOMETIMES SIMPLE IS BEST

we all know about the road paved

with good intentions,

corporate meetings spouting

egotistic offerings that lack

practical sense, feet to stand upright

and carry the weight from theory to fact.

Sometimes simple is best:

a wheel, a pulley,

the simple machines of push and pull

waiting by the shed, in the rain,

unnoticed

except by the fearfully close-mouthed.

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based on 

The Red Wheelbarrow 

BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

so much depends 

upon 

a red wheel 

barrow 

glazed with rain 

water 

beside the white 

chickens