The steam drills have long since won and
Been succeeded by diesel explosions and
Other fires, burning away at the fabric of the world,
Leaving less work to do for fewer and fewer hammers,
Driving the hands that would hold them and swing them
To other tasks and seemingly gentler where
The tick of a pen or pencil makes a single point and
The lives of others are saved or ruined while
Nobody notices and damned few care

The diesel is not the only successor to the steam,
The hammer not the only tool being wielded less and less,
But there are more hands, and they demand more tasks
Because Adam’s curse is still held as blessing and
Calvin still commands much in the world despite
Matthew’s words to which he and many claim fealty,
Or James’s, or tales of apostolic acts
Passed down from hand to hand as
The next best thing to Gospel truth

The new successors have their heralds
Trumpeting them to the four winds and
Seeking to soar above the lot of them,
And no few glory in the ringing of those horns for now,
The booming of the covered copper bowls that
Covers the coming steps of new giants who
Need grist for the mills to make their flour;
They do not mark the tune as the dirge that it is,
Playing out for them soon enough as it
Already sings out for others

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