The Ordered Worm

Gong! Gong!
Chanting turning
March song!
Mind discerning
Gong! Gong!
Perfect form
March song!
Metal Worm

It turns on structures metal-cast
It blossoms with symmetric blast
The Worm is master, brain of steel
The Worm is run by cog and wheel

Gong! Gong!
Mask of shine
March song!
Perfect line
Gong! Gong!
Placid pools
March song!
Order rules

The drum it pounds all into time
No sound has strayed now out of rhyme
The Ordered Worm is self-serene
The Ordered Worm is pure machine

Gong!

Bloodless fleshless being

Gong!

See its depth of dreaming

Gong!

Celebrate your structure

Gong!

Harmony in rapture

The Ordered Worm embraces all
The Ordered Worm shall never fall
We thus create the master tall
From inner brain to outer wall!

[1994]