04-25-2024, 05:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2024, 05:04 PM by RiverNotch.)
God Hath Numbered
In the 40s came the first
overhead projectors,
named after Belshazzar
by the Englishmen who made them,
which was quite the foolish scheme:
the writing on the wall
was for the Babylonian,
not by him, spelling out
his impending doom
in letters incoherent
to himself or to his court
and, sure enough, it took
an American improvement
for the gadget to secure
its position in the market
(like the Suez) in the 50s.
In the 40s came the first
overhead projectors,
named after Belshazzar
by the Englishmen who made them,
which was quite the foolish scheme:
the writing on the wall
was for the Babylonian,
not by him, spelling out
his impending doom
in letters incoherent
to himself or to his court
and, sure enough, it took
an American improvement
for the gadget to secure
its position in the market
(like the Suez) in the 50s.