As/Is







1.13.2004


Countdown on Nine

8. *
Triumph of the petrochemical mass
incendiary
the service
I was watching

I am not religious

the fast approach of river
bed silt, center a snake of winding red
silt

the green bank from the window
thinking to myself:
mass industrial genius:
we have finally manufactured every
every

voice is no longer possible
or innovative:
here is a scream of wrist
watch face
steaming
in rubble

Acrobat of gun,
Voluminous Jet A,
Engine yawn & percuss

That’s negative on the functional--
parachute, Sir,
not possible, Sir





*Regarding nine soldiers dead in a helicopter crash at Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday 10 Jan 04. News item courtesy of Transdada.