You are not the dust storm: Lay a stroke down, go left, steer right Overwrite, ten times the speed of Lightly, the sun dips its dizzy head And another mountain slips through Aurora's legs Not the Machine, but the test: Hal folds his feeble thumbs and generates The legs on one more raw amphibian, The winning keystroke in a roomful of apes, The mole on a waitress. Not a function. A vertical line tells: Hot off the breeze You and I twist Beneath a brewing sky, Settle among the chattering brush. The dust storm is rolling in, Bubbling up around our blurring faces, Foaming gray from the weathered teats of mountains To slip us through.