Everybody Loves Their Tool

….. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
….. and the Word was God.” John 1:1

Word has it that
in the beginning was the Word
but given millennia of I-love-me-best
that opener was probably written by a bard

the same thought from a painter would have read:
in the beginning was the line, stroke,
or brush tool of Photoshop

a mechanic would have said
the first efflorescence was a wrench

and a despot would have sworn
the universe had flowered from a lie

…….. —everybody loves their tool

in any case that sentence would likely
not have come from God for whom beginnings
are practical figments of our imagination
along with their anticipated ends

………. so, Death, be not smug

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Jim Culleny
May 2006
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