Inventions

I've not been here for a while, busy with this and that and not much time for writing, so nothing to add to the blog. However, at a meeting of ScribesRus, the writing group I belong to, the talk got round to inventions, and we were all asked to write a piece on what we wished we had invented. I thought of the usual suspects, you know the sort of thing, the wheel, the telephone, the internal cumbustion engine, but the more I thought about it the more I realised that, apart from the wheel, the world would be a better place without most of those things, especially the last one. No, it's the little things that really make life better so here's what I came up with -

OH, I WISH…

Oh I wish I’d invented the match
I’d have surely avoided the catch
Of the sulphurous poisons we saw
By their effect on the match girls’ jaw

Oh, I wish I’d invented the pin
With its safety clasp all moulded in
Which saves loss of blood and some pain
And words which are crass and profane

Oh, I wish I’d invented the Biro
(Old Laszlo was surely a hero)
What a difference would have been made -
When writing we’d now use a ‘Slade’.*

Oh, I wish I’d invented the clip
Which holds documents in a firm grip
And saves them from slipping and sliding
And prevents your nice ‘Jekyll’ from ‘Hyde-ing’

Oh, I wish I’d invented some things
I could bask in the glory it brings,
The kudos, the money, the fame,
And people remembering my name.

*Me