Poem: In A Few Years

 

Within A Few Years

 

i blink into a river of fire,

so lovely an hour ago

 

and green

 

and i see a billowing city

taking its poodles and slums and envies

up high into a red sky.

 

before this,

 

warnings had happened

so many times in the movies,

countless tubs of popcorn

below bloody fusions of romance-action-armageddon drama.

 

we went on and did it for real,

 

loving our children yet to vote for a man

who would push a button

and kill every child. 

 

i see the clear, clean eyes of an infant

turn into dirty neutrons.

 

i see those i love

pull teeth out of their mouths;

and clumps of flesh and hair 

off their soot-plastered heads.

 

blood dribbles off

speechless gums,

worthless ears,

destroyed breasts,

 

just before it all goes blind.

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