Lithographer’s Prayer

by Kit Ausschnitt, 1996

E-beams can raster;
photons are phaster.

Ions may take charge
but be way too large.

Should anyone ask
the hard x-ray task
is still in the mask.

Reflective remorse
doth EUV force
by dim mask and source.

Through Lord Rayleigh’s dream
we RETro careen
to low-k extreme;

While, heaven forfend,
we all must pretend
optics will

extend

extend
.
.
.

Lithographic
world
with
out
end.

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