From sophism to sexism to socket wrenches

Convenience,
I tell her
at the risk of sounding violently blasphemous,
is the father of decay
and the son of invention.

Yes
she says
and
Necessity may be the mother of invention
but necessity is the daughter of a nagging wife

And all is philosophy
until
it becomes
technology
I
say

yes
and technology
is man’s way of
discovering the computer
in all things

yes
and the clock
and the engine
…..and…the mind?

Yea,
she goes,
it seems
we will
have to
discover God
by inventing Her