For Everything We Need, We Use

​For everything we need, we use 
What we know, and what we
Know is so much, it spreads out
In a field of electricity,

And miracles are manufactured,
Strato and nano ,single-gram
Travelers to Alpha Centauri,
Or reporting an arterial jam,

And all of this has to be taken
High, where it does a man good,
Past the sun-striped forest,
The luckless sheriff and Robin Hood,

And the treasure box must be opened
For those sitting in bright rows
Who will have it for food
And for stately clothes.