ZEUS DOWNED

ZEUS DOWNED

the plan was
to slip under radar

flying in from Olympus
to punish us exactly,
strafe us with
lightning
it was nevertheless the fate
of this mighty son of Cronos
that
  we saw him heading here
calculated
all the vectors
and simply shot him down

and so we
     laughed it off, his
high and mighty  books embargo
laughed at his divine calculus
of good
    and evil, as all
his algorithms swept
into action

all his talk of
balance of power, mutually
assured annihilation,

of (the hypocrite) ban on
deity mortal cohabitation

so much threat to
     their perfect celestial divine
level
   and an
upwardly mobile
ambitious deadly spawn

a clamoring army
of hybrids, mixes
and
    fearsome blends

variations on
the theme of demigod