23.

all modern apocalypses arrive in business-speak emails

24.

if you listen, god still speaks
through the transistor radio

25.

tornados are the new elephant
that doesn’t forget


26.

raising steam to exercise the machines
as an act of faith in the grand wheel

27.

old paint and tired knees
hold the world machine together

28.

I dream of trains and mountains and you

29.

my improvement on Descartes’ Mechanical Model: the universe is one giant Rube Goldberg Machine