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"A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb." –W.H. Auden. This was my attempt at challenging that; a poem about a button being pressed that will wipe out probably hundreds of thousands of people.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Words: 48 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 02-02-13 - Status: Complete - id: 3097667
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it is small
red
devastating
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it will kill
destroy
cause suffering
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yet a hand is drifting toward it
a key held in the fingers
ready to unlock the case above it
with a twist
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the case is lifted up
a finger is outstretched
a forefinger
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depress
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release
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goodbye.
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