Ming flashed me back with this one...

Being a Verb
"I live on Earth at present,
and I don't know what I am.
I know that I am not a category.
I am not a thing -- a noun.
I seem to be a verb,
an evolutionary process --
an integral function of the universe."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

...which brought to mind the PBS American Masters salute to Bucky and its companion Thinking Out Loud site, with my favorite commentary (short quicktime video clip) on him by John Cage.

I'm going to go back to my bookshelf and dust off my old copy of his out of print Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization. Catchy title, eh?