IMPOSSIBLE OPUS

Gigantism of the mechine
reduces its designer
to a minikin

Approch
exactly calculated
for avoidance
of attendants' extinction

The brutal pulse
of the potential man-crusher
prowls in his ears

Before his insulated eyes
furnaces play leap-flame
as he feeds metallic tonnage
to metallic tonnage

Raised from inertia
in earth-depth
to towering
automatism
of microscopic precission

Below the scope
of uvea or finger

Terrorist massive
confronter,
dwarfer,
outdoer of the human doer

Enormity of super-matter
- - until the cyclotrone,
all inconcievably
'made by hand'

For in the dawn of his
doing
his hand
was man's lone tool.

Mina Loy