Cretan Maineiac - .Hephaestus

(Inspired by 'The God of Impertinence' by Sten Nadolny)

How that fire warms, forged
tools comfort, enable,
utile as physics, reason, & the average man Diogenes

never sought, bulwark against child-based instruction,
as if molecules &
viruses perform for the naked eye. Reason, reduced to

refutation of old testimonials, Jesus speciously
aligned w/
unfiltered wrath. Hephaestus's utility, salvation- tho

no one invokes his name after stubbing his toe or
sees him (or his mother)
in pancakes- forges ahead of Momus of ridicule &

handsome Dionysius w/ weapons of
mass deception &
instruments quantifying Vanity and the

striven after Wind, the club-footed deity thru
whom Lucifer found
Edison's third ear, inspiring sweat- such

medicine-
*pharmakon*-
girding one last-
ditch defense against
all threat of prophesied second act or profit-

less sequel, morality and mortality gold-plated-
out in
deference to a baseless-yet-somehow-higher

moral ground, embracing gratuitous
upgrades, trivializing
momentum, obscuring & out-

sourcing memory, the Fire that
warms, burns, melts & molds for
Hephaestus, father of

Pandora, w/ Faith that only the warmth will intrude.

Cretan Maineiac

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