A note on the mandrake

The irregular
black bands down
its side allow a
small force to over-
come a larger
one. Otherwise
it is blue, &
draws caricatures
of the effects of
technology 
on a modern society
where the houses
& temples are made
from hardened
steel. They are
still intact, a
modicum of the
Machtpolitik of its
massage, although
the latter is ex-
pressed as a ratio
of load to effort
& its form rarely
avers its content.