thank you thomas edison

I want to thank you
Thomas Edison
and other inventors
for providing us with light,
for telephones, for running water,
for toilets
that flush,
for buildings
with elevators, and blankets
that keep us warm
at night.
thank you world for
milk in a carton,
meat
and eggs
ready to go.
for figuring out how to squeeze
a grape
and make wine.
for fountain pens.
thanks to all those before
us with
their crafty ideas
on how to
build, how to make this
a livable world. how they must have
been up all night
figuring these things out.
tossing and turning.
thank you for glass,
for steel, for
the printing press,
another great idea, and
polyester, vinyl,
plastic. cotton sheets,
never iron shirts.
the medicine
that keeps us alive,
keeps us sane, keeps
up on our own two feet.
the cars, the boats, the trains,
everything that
rolls.
the wheel. thank you so
much for the wheel.
and let's not forget fire.
good lord. fire.
i'm not sure what I would
have done
in a world without fire.