Classic Poem

it limps the crippled pump.
gold rescued recovered from a cannibalized magnetron dog-skull.

damaged valve weeps much through bandage lagging.

it must be that their metal ears tilt to an indifferent drummer.
for in the kingdom of rhythm detection is obedience.

the man of nightly maintenance advances humming to himself hymns through the long soliloquies & labyrinths of pipes.
& veins seams lines tubes wires & drainage fields.
peppertrash organization wiring diagrams flow charts batch codes faced gauges fuse box doors breech blocks circuit breakers transmission checks & labs of windowed water.

alcohol delivers itself of stillborn smiles.

brooms & wrenches show their bacon teeth.
34 55 89 cleft for me.
sharkhead hammers wake demand breakfast what a racket.
screwdrivers scheme in leather beds.

hunchback transformer hums flat.
do me do me.

bits per second.

needles & anvils index the invisible east.
for lo from there come men & machines riding each other on saddles of reciprocal corruption.

& worship.
mutual worship.
the snake that said don't tread on me is dead now.