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OPEN QUESTION

was over the rainbow
reading Gravity’s Rainbow

totally alone in the Manchester
Poly new lecture and dormitory complex
the night outside
straining against the streetlights
to impose impenetrability

occupancy
a month away, set for
summer and the new
academic year

and me
feeling secure, overlooking
the small matter of the SS20s
parked somewhere
in Eastern Europe
sights set on this city
and
thus on me

Oh V2 rocket
progenitor of these mid-range
city killers

this technology so set
on rendering all
human future an open
question

what Pandora could not have
imagined lurking
in the bottom
(true bottom
beneath all false versions)

but Pynchon
saw so intensely

setting his imagination
to dead end