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Sunday Popo​-​Ola & Malaika Kegode - Glass Bridge

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We did most of our collaboration online through chats, audio and video conversations using WhatsApp.

During our introduction some words started to play on our minds simultaneously and from the time the project was convened:

The main one is that The World is nothing but Civil Engineering, why.

Civil or Civilised Engineers provide:

• Safe water to drink,
• Light to see at night, Roads to drive on,
• Cars to take us from point A to B,
• Plane to fly across ocean,
• Trains to cross between cities,
• Computers to link in the cloud,
• Cloths to cover us from severe weather and sun,
• Shoes to protect our feet from wearing and tearing,
• Phone to bring the world into our palm
• TV to find out what's happening around us,
• Eyeglasses for enhance and protect our vision.

We also discussed things that really stuck out for us when we had a brief chat regarding Sunday's teaching and research work. Malaika asked if there any stories or things that have happened, or people that Sunday have come across, that have really inspired him through his teaching?

We both believe that teaching and classroom is a place where people naturally meet to exchange ideas, thoughts and teach one another. It is therefore such a vital part of keeping one connected to one's work.

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Do you agree with me when I say to you that Engineers save more lives than Medical doctors?
May be you don't believe me... but it's true ... sometimes true things are hard to believe because you don't see them.
Like is it true that we shouldn't walk on glass? But what if that glass is a bridge and it is your ONLY way to cross the valley !! Wouldn't you walk on glass?


You might not see it at first,
from a distance, the people seem
airborne, feet on clear ground -
until sun shines through,
sends fractal shadow from its edges,
suspended, an outline of the sky.
Sometimes,
the work that keeps us moving,
keeps planes flying, worlds connected,
happens without our knowledge.
Constancy keeps us safe,
blooms through purpose and civility
as we travel through it, clean
and free-flowing as water
from a tap.
You need to master intimacy
to create something big enough
for bodies to rely on.
Dismantle structure to reform
logic and wind life around
the corners of everything
we could create.
How do we translate material?
How do we sing the language of
lives that are unwittingly
saved every day?
By the gift of clean water to drink,
safety of roads lit all the way home,
love held in the blue light of a phone
trains connecting across cities,
shoes that carry us through heat,
these constants help us traverse oceans
they keep the world’s steadiest beat.
Unifiers, don’t happen by
accident. This is a force created
by the resilient, who read,
tinker and make. Whose hands
hold all that we do, and
humanity cloaks our own
as we learn to live in a world
of their design.

Let’s meet on that glass bridge,
in all its translucent strength
and talk about the invisible,
visible things that keep us alive

Oh yeah definitely Engineers save more lives than Medical doctors because Engineers provide clean drinking water in your tap so that you don't get diarrhoea and need doctors. They provide light so you can see in the dark and not fall, injuring yourself and hospitalised. Safe road and car so that the car stops when you press the break to avoid accident and being rush into hospital. Above all, Engineers gets ride of your wastes, toilet, bathroom, kitchen waste and recycle them to another clean drinking and fertilisers to grow our plants.
Surely you now agreed with me that Engineers save more lives than Medical doctors.

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from Experimental Words, released June 23, 2021

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