In the beginning there was Adam.

He was a Smith.

Crafting with an invisible hand,

he carved out

the wealth of nations.

 

You never see a horseshoe

making a blacksmith.

Complex things create

the illusion of design.

Much simpler things

are made.

 

A market is unknowably complicated.

Nobody can manage it.

Humans have the idea of a market,

but markets make themselves.

Humans had the idea of the internet

but the internet made itself.

Humans are the sowers of seeds.

 

The tiny contribution

by each of millions,

makes a perfectly

functioning whole.

No individual contributor

is of any consequence.

 

God is a simple thing.

Easy for man to make.

Grass is complicated.

Rocket science is easy.

 

Once god was improved

from being a piece

of painted wood,

he didn't work.

 

Designer god.

Are you beneficent

or omnipotent?

A good and kindly,

feeble wimp,

or mighty,

monster ghoul.

 

"What are you going to be

when you grow up?"