Knowing how a gun works

It doesn't really matter
Whether accident or plot
Nor knowledge of Newton's law
If the boiler don't run hot.

It doesn't matter if you're rich
If you can't spend what you've got
And knowing how a gun works
Won't stop you getting shot.

You can ink and fold the paper
It won't make a Rorscharch blot
Have a thousand dinner dates
And never tie the knot.

It doesn't help to pin a map
If you can never join the dots
And knowing how a gun works
Won't stop you getting shot.

A Silken Wave has Undulated

There is so much video calling
So little touch
Like that ferrous curtain falling
When the worst of wars abated
All the planes and ships in port are stalling
A Silken wave has undulated.

The blind watchmaker fumbles for his eyes
The parts and springs spread on the table
That poor memory denies
Though his nimble fingers able.

Will this watch be made on time
Will this timepiece be forever fated
To run late, always behind the line
A Silken wave has undulated.

For some time was discarded
The noise around our phones
Till ways were found for recording
The waves flowing from our bones.

On this crowded planet it has been restated
We are not alone
A Silken wave has undulated
Cross the thresholds of our home.

There is more room at the bottom
Too much weight up top
The words of Marx and Richard Feynman
Cannot be forgot

Are we to drown in the heaving wake
Of these devices we've created
Is it possible some path to make
As allies elevated?

As our planet nears collapse
Like our hemispheric lobes
A Silken wave has undulated
Right across the globe.

f:The highest power

Where is this now
And where f
What is thought when
f {
If
    Statements. Statesmen
    Cannot state

Then
    Where is the State
    Without violence being
    The highest power

Value    :The highest power
        (Lives between the lines
        Shadow filming
        Light's absences, the edges of cracks
        Fed of lorry droppings, Manillaed cash);

If
    The highest power ebbs
    Wanes like the pulling moon
    Decays like rooves and architraves of Rome

Then
    The highest power: refresh
    f: {The highest power
        Instated
        If
        {Denatured State: state of nature;
            Naturalised in a Y
            Enabled dark future.};

       Elseif
        {All state their nature: natural state
            Statesmen statement
            Y
            Future enabled equals
            C};};};