on industry

we have, perhaps, given
industry a bad reputation,
because progress progresses
too quickly sometimes, and people
get trampled in the rush toward
new things, or by capitalist
greed-iness. but industry,
being of use in the world,
the value of work, dignity
of labor, discovery, learning
more about our earth; how to solve
any problem, the answer is there
if we reach for it, seek truth