Decades ago, I received a gift while reading Hackers by Stephen Levy and an anthology Scottish poetry.
In Hackers, there's a page or two that talks about the relationship between the wiring under their train set and the ability to "hack" the lines / bytes of code required for a program to operate. Moments later, I was reading Robert Burns.
The gift was: remove all that is unnecessary and include only your best, and you have the best chance of success.
Poetry is language hacking - thank you ISL for posting this here - well played!
Who hasn't been here? http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/wislawa_szymborska/poem...
A few more: https://www.hermitary.com/literature/szymborska.html
http://inwardboundpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/03/629-railroad-s...
http://www.favoritepoem.org/poem_NotesfromaNonexistentHimala...