Chimney Fire in the Age of Reason
Copyright 2001 Leonard Richardson

Wheel, wheel, wheel, wheel
Wheel in my eye
Pliers, vices
Small devices
Slice and dices
Dionysus

Metal of my mother
Manufactured by another
Malefactors, fighters, lovers
Organisms live without these

Fire, fire, fire, fire
Fire in the sky
Some stupid with a flare gun
Pulled my plug and let me die

What I'd give to be
Subject to lycanthropy
The train from Tehachapi
Would make it in on time

Sloppy lossy protocol
Between your mind and mine
Hydrochloric acid in my 
Stomach by design

Would I cease from being whole?
Would I chance to lose my soul?
Would I, helpless, shovel coal
Into an empty chimney?

Organisms lack
The chimney fire hack
Organisms lack
The chimney fire hack