GAZEBO
(the) gazebo
is a portal
can
whisk you away
transport to mainland,
ancient China
watch the Sengoku Jidai
run its course, take place
alter
the outcome if
you feel that way
and so no
war with Russia or
Pearl Harbor
no cities devastated
by nuclear fire
unless it is shipping things
across the galaxy at
faster than light speed
tickles
your fancy
like this insect-like, alien,
shapeshifting creature
its antennae so switched on
ready to receive
huge, biomechanical possibly,
perhaps even shape-shifting
pushing the boundaries
of what we
might conceive
here, outlandishly, to
communicate, negotiate,
wing
its way to our leader
dictate
surrender terms
or thrust us aeons ahead
as we crack the code
of its impossible technology
or stick you
with its stinger, run off
with genetic evidence
that others, no less curious
than our
so far limited species
might like to study
perhaps find
hard
to believe
