Legend has it that candy canes were first created in the late 17th century when a choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany asked a local candy maker to create sugary sticks for children to enjoy during Christmas Eve services. To make them more festive, he asked for the candies to be bent into the shape of a shepherd’s crook to remind children of the shepherds who visited baby Jesus. This has nothing to do with the post below, but it’s a nice segue anyway.
In Busada-land bends clog the floor, going where bends had not gone before.
Some are quite small
Some are quite grand
Some threaded tight
Some colored grand.
For kids, we make rainbows, sparking laughter, and dreams,
In factories, they’re part of the streaming of streams.
Luminaries Bright
To light up the night
Green canes for fluids, flow out of our sight.
Pneumatic tubes, whooshing pies in the sky
Some so big, you-gotta see it from high.
Gravity drop for a paper bag,
from upstairs to downstairs
with barely a drag.
With twists and turns to give it pizzazz.
And coffee ascending with razzmatazz.
With ovals and cutouts
Caps fly through the air
And biotics for chow
Rectangular to round
And expert know-how.
And with this we must end
Lest my boss, I offend