This poem is about early 20th Century Oil Drilling practices. Enjoy it, I really liked writing it.

A Rotary Tool Used for Scraping Out Obstructions from an Oil Pipeline

The Go-Devil,

A Cylinder of hooks and plates,

Is put to work

The oil pipeline lies

Like a dull grey worm who has eaten

Too many vindictive spider webs,

Begging for the little devil's medicine

Grab, tug, grind the walls clean!

Go, devil!

Endure the steady scrape.

Without necessary abrading,

The black gold won't flow