Guardsman-A-Day: December 2023

Sunday, December 31, 2023

You can measure

a crash site, fallout makes numbers

the machines can

digest.

Tragedy has velocity -

that's all

I'm saying.

Merry Christmas, Guardsman-a-Day!

This is our twelfth holiday season

together

and I'm so happy to be with you

again and again.

All the best data comes from disaster.

I mean, the guys in the lab

have only got so many machines to work with.

no surprises.

Hermetically sealed in

a rubber suit

take readings and observations with

sensors that

we ourselves designed to record what we anticipated

we might find, years

before we even arrived.

This, science.

Functionally

your sensors can only

read

what they have been designed

to read.