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  Design-Induced Pilot Error

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  When I have crashed
For the last time,
Will the one sent
To sift through wreckage
For my soul's black box
Conclude that the pilot
Of this broken craft,
In his last moments
Reached for one switch,
But touched another,
Adjacent and identical,
That shut off the fuel
Instead of moving to reserves?


Gary Witt

Submitted Date :  Sunday, April 27, 2008
Submitted Date :  Tuesday, August 18, 2009



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R H (5/11/2008 12:46:00 PM)
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The language and imagery are tightly contained yet the thought provoking question that you throw out seems to know no bounds.... Love the image of your 'soul's black box' especially.. Another contemplative gem here Gary. justine
Tom J. Mariani (5/7/2008 7:48:00 PM)
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There is several ways to ask this question without a pilot's license. You have used the concrete experience of flying very effectively.
Tom
Cheryl Moyer (5/2/2008 4:53:00 PM)
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Gary - I have tempted fate more than once with always the same answer. My time will come when my star has finally crossed the sky. Not yet. Great poem!

Cheryl
Greenwolfe 1962 (4/28/2008 5:14:00 PM)
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That's a very interesting question, and one I address directly in my
poem 'Acceptance Of Fate '. What a starting question for philosophy
and discovery.

GW62
 
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