The "Radar Man" poem
seems to have a long story...
Personally, I met it when a friend found the manuscript in an old
technical manual.
After having put the text and an image of the manuscript here, I
started to receive e-mails from people who have met this poem
before...each one telling me a part of a long story....
The origins of the "Radar Man" are really old: it
seems to date back to the early days of radar during WWII, and to the
first radar technicians ("radar mechanics", as they were then named) in
the RAF.
If you are interested in the story of the "Radar Man", and
want to see the manuscripts, click here.
NEW! (July 2014): it seems we have found the author of the poem!
Click here to learn more
The radar man
If you should see upon the street
A man equipped with dipole feet
With a family of curves trailing behind
He's a radar man with a micro-mind
His eyes take on a neon gleam
His ears extend to a Yagi beam
His mouth becames another pulse gate
His heart pumps blood at a video rate
With micro-seconds and micro-waves
And micro-volts he fills his days*
And thereby in the curse of time
He developed a micro-mind
This Radar man with the passing years
Attained infinite impedance between his ears
And finally succumbed to an heavy jolt
When he got what he thought was a micro-volt
The Doc looked up from his micro-scope
Turned to his collegues and softly spoke
No trace of a brain can I find
He's a Radar man with a micro mind
*) In the "canadian" manuscript. The "eBay" manuscript reports: "his
slangs" instead of "his days"
