Classic Poem

Try and walk backwards: you will quickly see
How you were meant only one-way to be!
Attempt to gaze out of your bricked-up back:
You will soon discover what we One-ways lack!
Endeavour to re-occupy the Past:
Your stubborn front will force you to stand fast!
(No traffic-caption of Sens Interdit
Is necessary for this clearly One-Way Street.)
Address yourself to sitting down front-first —
Your joints will stop you, or your hips will burst!
Try and read backwards out of any book —
Essay to take a walk eyes-shut and not to look —
It will be useless! Only machines reverse —
All that has mind may not go arsieverse!
Creatures of Fronts we are — designed to bustle
Down paths lit by our eyes, on stilts of clockwork muscle —
And furthermore this clockwork works clockwise,
Forward on vectors traced out by our eyes.
So there you have it! How important frontness is
I need not labour further — even backness is frontness!