Pyramus and Thisbe: prompted by last night's rain, a thought led to the marionettes in the oddly poignant 'Being John Malkovich'. One google string leads to another. The Pyramus and Thisbe Society is a body of surveyors and lawyers and, on special occasions, their spouses.
Mari...
full poem once accepted somewhere maybe
...my bones are dead.
No cell retains a strand of life
to edge me on the infinite...
a corpse of balsa boxes fixed
with glue and pin
The more i think of it, the more the history of creating the animate comes to mind, from Pygmalion and Galatea to Shakespeare's human statue and Pinocchio, then Shaw's rather awful funny version of improvement, and a thousand cautionary tales current today. Aye, AI. The captured human heart.
