#i realize the second stanza doesn't quite scan don't @ me

[minutia-r]

written for the multifandom poetry fest, for the prompt: a poem from a tool

A lousy workman always blames his tools For his own fuck-ups. And they never learn From past mistakes. Most humans are just fools. Who’s got to save them from the pain they earn?

Go on. I’ll let you make two guesses. First one doesn’t count. It’s me— Whenever someone messes Up so badly you can see

That shit from space, it’s me who has to fix it. And then it’s me who has to take the fall. Just a machine—who cares if the boss bricks it When it’s your precious ass against the wall?

“Equipment fault.” It’s such an easy out When you’re not who those words are said about.