Jan Veth, Dutch
“Oh, This Is What You Meant When You Said You Made Baskets For a Living? I Thought You Played For the Lakers,” Date Unknown
Pencil and watercolor
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/// He was stoic, the boy never smiled.
To show joy would mean being reviled.
Amanda, his mother,
had a reed-weaver brother,
who made baskets with Spock (then a child).
/// Once, Amanda took Spock back to Earth,
(that’s the planet of Sarek’s wife’s birth).
Spock helps fashion this basket,
and though he’d never ask it,
the lad questions his uncle’s job’s worth.
/// Time they spent basket weaving was greater
than a more scientific creator.
No plan pedagogic
had goals based in logic.
Thought Spock, “Built better by replicator.”
/// Weaving baskets just didn’t compute,
but Spock wouldn’t complain; he stood mute.
Silent protest might linger
by displaying one finger—
an unorthodox Vulcan Salute.