20 Hiroshimas

POW!

It’s girth 16 meters

punching through the stratosphere

like a rum-soaked, raging fist

through the kid’s room drywall

45 kilometers per second speed

SMASH

goes all the dirty windows

in Chelyabinsk

Mother Russia, what happened to your teeth?

Your whitewashed sky

gets blasted by the black heavens

and its cosmic toenail clipping

steals the eyes of 1000 gawkers:

Astronomy’s Revenge.

Never saw it coming

Will never see again.

A small, superlunary reminder,

comrades, that you are

sitting ducks

fish in a barrel

lab rats in a maze.

Nothing personal, please understand.

The universe, just like the next guy,

simply wants to have a say.