The hastily assembled angel watches
From the air he watches from that point in the air
Where years from now the apex of the pyra-
mid he is watching being built will be
Invisibly he watches as slaves roll
Huge stones from the quarry to the pyramid the
Slave who invented the method for moving
The stones is dead the stones that were too big
For human beings to move the angel saw
The slave was killed for attempting to correct
The implementation of his method which
The Egyptian engineers had not at first
Completely understood though even as
His dark blood made the dirt beside them dark
They saw the first board buckle beneath the weight
Of the first stone fortunately the slave had
Explained his method often to his fellow
Slaves and they could when they were ordered to
Silently make it work the angel sees the
Slaves serve their masters most efficiently
When they aren’t talking to each other but
They serve their masters most quickly just after
They have devised a plan to kill their masters