WHEN

WHEN

When time got reversed
the plan was
to sail backwards
across the sea
undiscovering everything

magically, one by one
things disappeared: chilies,
popcorn, burgers, chocolate,
tobacco, tomahawk missiles,
baseball, gridiron, surfing,
rap, hop hop, jazz, blues,
slavery and potatoes,
Pickett’s Chsrge
Hiroshima and
the Normandy landings

the world
becoming a bit
less fun but
remaining that
much greener

and nuclear winter at
most a crazy science fiction idea.