poetry & engineering

     Where does the poet fit into an engineering culture that has nothing but contempt for the actual physical world, that values not things-in-themselves but how they can be telegraphed into other "advantages"?
     Where does a poet fit into an engineering culture that projects time as horizontal in order to devise design & apply its ample abbreviates- a stridency that ironically defeats itself by fostering greater necessity & delivering not the fullness of time but rendering it a "fugitive measure"?