#2

Touching a #2 pencil is
Like touching #2...
When you're constipated -
It's hard and scratchy and
It just stinks... you gotta
Force ideas out of it and
They just don't flow out
The pointy graphite tip.
Sometimes they get stuck
In the shavings inside the
Sharpening machine
Collected for the garbage
Not to be recycled...
Maybe.

Are these just the 1,002 steps
In the process of invention like
Edison's light bulb?