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.