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Unless the Lord...

"Unless the Lord
builds the house,
its builders
labour in vain".

Buildings
that seem
to brush
the ceiling
of the sky,
computers
that crunch numbers
and process words
and pictures
and fling them
around the globe,
genetically
modifying crops
so we feed people
not weevils...
How clever
we are!
Who or what
can stop
our progress?

September 11,
Afghanistan,
Iraq...
all seem to question
our arrogant
assumptions,
our invincible
foolishness.

"Unless the Lord
builds the house,
its builders
labour in vain".


© Peter J Blackburn 2003
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