Lawrence Hall, HSG
[email protected] Boeing, Studebaker, John Deere, and my Tupperware™ Coffee Cup
“The days are gone…
When wonderful things were worked among them”
-
The Seafarer, trans. Burton Raffel
My Tupperware coffee cup is as a chalice
With which I salute the beginning of each day
Cool, colorful, comforting craftsmanship
An honest, utilitarian work of art
We are told such things will be no more
“Made in USA” is “
Factorum Romae”
Younger nations will find us camping among the ruins
Of works and arts we no longer comprehend
A colonial soldier might note that once we were a great people
His colonel will reply, “Tosh! They’re simple savages.”
