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# The Wheel That Slices Gold
- URL: https://thinsections.pub/the-wheel-that-slices-gold/
- Published: 2026-06-30T20:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T01:17:12.000Z
- Description: Oh, the wheel, how it turns! Round and round in the gold, with a block in its jaws and a secret to hold.
- Author: Jerry Clarin, HT (ASCP)

Oh, the wheel, how it turns!   
Round and round in the gold,   
with a block in its jaws   
and a secret to hold.   
  
Up high sits the knife   
in its shimmering seat,   
and it waits for the spin   
that will make the slice neat.

A ribbon comes off,   
oh so thin,   
oh so fine,   
each section a sliver,   
each sliver a sign.   
  
The cells gather pink   
and they gather in blue,   
in tiles a slow jeweler  
took ages to glue.

And over it all glows   
a city of light,   
with domes and with stars   
in a gold-spun night.   
  
So crank the old handwheel   
and trust in your hand,   
for the truth's in the tissue,   
thin-sliced on demand.

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