In the Next Life, Canto I, stanzas 33-36

I am drawing myself out of the blogging business for a while and returning to the simple task of relating the story. I would like at some point to provide a brief history of its writing as mentioned in yesterday's post, but I have concluded that it is better to wait until we have more thoroughly developed some of the ideas.

With that out of the way, here is today’s bit of verse:

And if the project goes as well as planned,
they’ll add more airplanes made from the same mold.
But only the materials come from land;
the new ones are assembled by the old.

They take a recently retired plane;
they do it like the ones already done;
they set it on the water with a crane
to wait between the ocean and the sun.

Next, one of the incumbent submarines
will surface right behind the empty craft,
and, after some preliminary scenes,
will plug its fore into the other’s aft.

A cockpit door will open to conceive,
and from the mother ship some will pass through.
One-third of its inhabitants will leave
to form one-half the daughter’s maiden crew.

© 2010 Louis A. Merrimac

Do it like: Presumably this means whatever they did to make a cylindrical shell out of the fuselage.