DOWN

DOWN

I am a god
demigod
hero
    beloved by
all on
Olympus

I am switched to
panorama
I get the whole picture

and here, with the denouement,
I shall call upon
divine machinery
to
   escape
the stage

leave them to splinter and
splutter, their
tongues
   tied around them
constricting like the serpents
that swallowed
Laocoon and his
male chlldren

and here it is, my vehicle now,
dodging the heavy flak,
as it slaloms through
search-
     light beams

luckily this is classic, no
thought of variation of outcome
alternate history

not a hope
in Hell do these aggrieved
little mortals have

of shooting me from sky
seeing me plummet down.