FLIGHT TIME (NO RERUNS)

FLIGHT TIME (NO RERUN)

gone
in sixty seconds

plus flight time
all of thirty minutes

the chess board burning
the pieces melting
it is a game
that no one
will ever play again

certainly none of these kids
sitting under their desks
they know
     “duck, and cover”

no one thought much about this
could imagine it happen
forty, fifty
years ago whole
cities
   shutting down
the streets, out in
protest

even Donald will not
pronounce all the syllables
calling it
   his “N word”

the slightest nudge
and the species, scared
shits we are
       went total
hair trigger
                  whereupon complete first
strike
went total retaliation

you evaporate me
I evaporate you

that’s the bargain, that’s
the deal

a winter to take us back
a hundred thousand years
nothibg
   to eat
          but each other

no more reruns of
Strangelove on You Tube