Coal in the hole
Your tricks of the mine
You're going down so far
You can't find a seam
Or straight line

Deep underground
This iron will smooth
Out every wrinkle in time
Reacting in every way
Reddened or gold

It's a fool's way
Of surviving to die
When every hard passage
And badly-lit tramway
Carries the seeds to fly

You don't think about zinc
Or the tricks of the mine
The engines we build not of tin
Soon take over and make us wish -
We never lined up for this crime

Tricks of the mine

8/23/24