THE REFINERY IS NO PLACE FOR POETRY

The metallic gargantuan city shakes the concrete foundations of mankind

Steam stacks and churning motors moan like whores in red light districts

Electric networks and controls web through the metallic skeletal husk as the nervous system of a mechanized god

Black blood pumps through piping and delivers power from its drooling clutched maw

The earth creaks under its mighty rise to full power

Mankind toils beneath its heaving form, worshiping its every move with reverent care

An irregular movement of creation could crush them all in an instant

Oh the hive, how it swarms

Like bees working for the queen and her honey

The crowd below gives their lives in the form of time

For the sweet nectar called money

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