Giant walls up in the air
fit so well together
all those secret smiles
in stone
Mona Lisa weather.
Grandkids off to college
grandparents to the store
summer is for fishing
and fish stories galore.
Please just tell us all the truth
about the smiling stones?
Mocking us forever with
"use logs and rope"
No phones?
A billion years is longer than
Henry Ford's great vision
I once worked assembly line
brimfire's repetition.
Stone is smooth and fifty tons
a razor's edge between
they melt together making love
bare-assed modernity.
I hear their whispers, giggles
slow and patient gropes
forever's more like nine to five
with Oldsmobile screw holes.
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