Beauty and Bacon*

No matter how you frame

From where you look

Of course there is better and worse 

But it’s hard to mess up beautiful

For flowers don’t have bad angles 

Yet if replication is to be learned

Beauty is probably your worst enemy

Masking dissimilarities and caveats

Distracting you 

From what matters 

Beauty lies in the most tender way 

Looks you in the eye and pleads

“But I turned out well!

Shouldn’t that be your final test?”

The ultimate indicator of success

Floral fiction

So alluring it changes your aim

When practicing how to replicate

Its beauty convinced you 

It’s okay to manipulate 

We must design tests where 

Failures are not only reliable 

But obvious 

So when you need to depict truth as it is

You won’t have to realise

You never learnt how