LEARNING CURVE
you tried to
bomb history
whilst
we weren’t watching
looking the other way
some fog of
war,
this,
given how you smokescreened
the whole of humanity
whilst you
gave it your best shot
blowing the social, the economic,
the political foundations
of our world
(last faint possibilities of
a rational world)
horizon to horizon
to kingdom come
first take you had
was that you
might decapitate us,
a single bomb to do it,
as the logic deepened
carpet bombing persuaded
devastate everything
send back
to the stone ages
before boots on the ground
they are reading
about you now
the kids of the future
of gross military stupidity
you have become
a cautionary tale
history
rewriting you, how
best to set up
the punchline
last laugh as always, hate
to be
the one
(steepest ever learning curve)
to give away the game
poems 2 die for 