Saturday, January 22, 2011

Lights Out

The weak link
is the twisted bolt,
the stripped screw,
the bent nail,
the frayed rope -
used and spent
like Judas' take,
then asking Jesus,
"Is it I, Lord?"

Escalators to heaven
and Babel,
resurrected by Otis and Boeing -
mushrooms over Hiroshima,
ruptured in black holes.
Lights out on a swollen face,
two black eyes.

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