More from Ken Belford's wise new book, Decompositions:

If we could look back and remember
when systems fail we live the same pattern over,
and know bungles are understandable, that
misprints are not random events but near misses,
and whoever is closest to the error is not
the reason for the failure.

Three lines near the end of Ken Belford's Decompositions (Talon, 2010), his brand new book of poems:

I give away words for a living.
Sometimes I'm running the title,
others the saw and scene, period.