(Inspired by 'The God of Impertinence' by Sten Nadolny) <br /> <br />How that fire warms, forged <br /> tools comfort, enable, <br /> utile as physics, reason, & the average man Diogenes <br /> <br />never sought, bulwark against child-based instruction, <br /> as if molecules & <br /> viruses perform for the naked eye. Reason, reduced to <br /> <br />refutation of old testimonials, Jesus speciously <br /> aligned w/ <br /> unfiltered wrath. Hephaestus's utility, salvation- tho <br /> <br />no one invokes his name after stubbing his toe or <br /> sees him (or his mother) <br /> in pancakes- forges ahead of Momus of ridicule & <br /> <br />handsome Dionysius w/ weapons of <br /> mass deception & <br /> instruments quantifying Vanity and the <br /> <br />striven after Wind, the club-footed deity thru <br /> whom Lucifer found <br /> Edison's third ear, inspiring sweat- such <br /> <br />medicine- <br /> *pharmakon*- <br /> girding one last- <br /> ditch defense against <br /> all threat of prophesied second act or profit- <br /> <br />less sequel, morality and mortality gold-plated- <br /> out in <br /> deference to a baseless-yet-somehow-higher <br /> <br />moral ground, embracing gratuitous <br /> upgrades, trivializing <br /> momentum, obscuring & out- <br /> <br />sourcing memory, the Fire that <br /> warms, burns, melts & molds for <br /> Hephaestus, father of <br /> <br />Pandora, w/ Faith that only the warmth will intrude.<br /><br />Cretan Maineiac<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hephaestus-2/
