We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." ~ Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in "Dead Poet's Society"
Thursday, December 14, 2006
All in a Days Work
All in a Day’s Work
Stealth fighter.
Black invisible ghost.
Death-bird of Hell
hard-wired for lethal strike,
electronic eyes a perfect 20-20 vision-
tearless orbs scanning from cold, dispassionate deep sockets.
A voracious vulture scavenging above fields of innocent brown mice-
rice farmers oblivious to the smoke, thin vapor trails snaking through cloudy pockets
rockets raining like sleet, an effusive hailstorm of unnatural disaster.
Deux- ex- machinas, surreal specters like fallen Icarus,
unseen by ordinary mortals. You’re metallic
justice dispersed deep within
bowels of Cheyenne Mountain
obliterating the unseen.
Stealth fighter
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