tools
carving out life
wrenching reactive thought
painting pictures
something for active posterity
need onto paper
resolve into history
sometimes fine art
manicuring mind
excavating pits
so much blood and sweat
filling deep holes
those empty places
crowding intellect
block by chiseled block
so many tools
scourging souls
puncturing tools
objects piercing every heart
pounding tools
smashing daily life
building tools
crushing towns
crashing through cities
erecting high walls
tools for excavation
damaging unsuspecting earth
rearranging foundations
relocating glittering gems
sustenance tools
cooking lunch and dinner
slicing want into need
removing thick and thin skin
tools that let us see ourselves
reflection on a still surface
manufactured tools
fractions of this and that
factory tools
factional things
forging fists and fistulas
no one wants to smell or hear
spanning gaps and gorges
few ever happen to see
tools for focusing sight
divisions of psyche
encapsulating distant stars and galaxies
encouraging short-sightedness
bloody hell tools
turning the writhing earth
pushing relevant creation
further from the back burner
tools of epiphany
reinforcing nebula and meteor
bone tools
saw bones and broken bones
stone tools
lost in deep forgotten caves
tools of rectitude
tossed into icy rivers and salty oceans
reciting poem and song
light tools
some barely there
light as air
just a select few
tools of normality
normalizing thin boiling soup
stirring hot thick stew
tools for daring and caring
adoring a single mind
each finial tool
crimping and craving
those secret pools of mystery
mysterious ruling tools
dipping and diving
searching for similarity
perhaps modern tools will one day find
some sense and sensibility
future tools like our own strange kind

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