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
poems 2 die for 