(Listen to the poem here) First buy a ring cake, which you will not eat. A chance to buy a flavour you don't like. Cut out the middle hole, be small and try to take forever. Think that a mouse is lapping up Sumida river. Discard the cake, carry the hole, use all your fifty... Continue Reading →
Engineered Food
The Polish science-fiction writer Stanislav Lem once set a story in a world in which the energy of children running about and playing was harnessed for power production. As I walk round in Rome in Summer, I think about that whenever I am knocked off the pavement by blasts of hot air issuing from air-conditioned buildings. I suppose that super-heating pedestrians... Continue Reading →