Money bought me
Lusts made my labour
Greed sustained me
I, the manufacturer of Engines
Wrought the union, it was I
From my inventions
Sprang the offspring who would
Slay his master
Guilt persuaded me
Necessity bound me
Fate took away my will
I built the cell – the labyrinth
To hold the half-man I had fostered
It was I
Who built the city
To contain him
Science sustained me
And time my master
I acted eventually unbidden
I gave her the twine, and she he
But the thread that he followed
Was mine from
Beginning to end. Now
I wait for my murder
With a cold heart