<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392245" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Engineering Desire...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's like playing games with fire. Desire is little understood<br>The energy on which its heart relies for food<br>Is liable to melt down from its own toxicity<br> <br>Yes, with desire there's much that can go wrong<br>It can turn out pitifully weak, a hundred times too strong<br>Or reckless in its hunger for pain and publicity<br> <br>It's a complex secret formula, so just be sure<br>To avoid the myriad mistakes that were made before<br>Like when they tried to build the perfect man<br> <br>Maybe you could do it in the factories in China<br>They'll make anything out there and they often make it finer.<br>If you lack the means to buy it, they'll ensure you can<br> <br>A few skilled engineers are working deep under the ground<br>To build a pure state of desire, from substances burned<br>By love's blue flame, contemptuous of surfaces that rust<br> <br>But all the corporate alchemists can conjure up, it's clear<br>Is envy first and foremost, lust for curved metallic gear<br>Functional at best, corroding most of us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392245" data-title="Engineering Desire... de Frank Bana" data-description="It's like playing games with fire. Desire is little understood The energy on which its heart relies for food Is liable to melt down from its own toxicity Yes, with desire there's much that can go wrong It can turn out pitifully weak, a hundred t..."></div> </div> </div>

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