Plastic Scoops

In the creation of disposable utensils, i guess you have a choice. Do you go more towards it bends and breaks when it reaches its stress limit? I feel like i've had some plastic spoons that managed to do both - flimsy and brittle. It might as well be sponge sugar or something. But ok, anyway, back to thi this poem from the the she ching in the end. There was one thing pretty interesting in this poem, which is that the speaker starts looking to the constellations up in the sky, but picks up again on the utensil imagery from the beginning of the poems. Now, i really don't know exactly what to make