Work begins on the construction project of the century With year of heft, swings, silence Dedicated by and to and for The prepositional journey To separate rocks from the earth Remake the world in the image Of the laborious species at the top of the Hierarchy of arbitrariness A supposed consciousness Make the images from its heads Wring the juice out of a scoured source To craft an enduring vision Reflected from mind to matter To charade the supremacy of the former