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Poetry of Issue 9: Missile Command

Missile Command

You won’t destroy me
or this infrastructure where
my silos protect
this foundation from the trails
your bombs will bestow

My trigger finger
is a hard one to challenge
and in time I will
repair these ruins upon
this desolate wasteland

With a thousand points
of reference after the years
since I’ve been alive
I detect malice for miles
at the highest altitudes

Keep in mind I am
a specter of forgiveness
who was exorcised
from this Trojan Horse where guile
was your first line of defense

This time I will be
a fortress like Masada
where I will sustain
without submitting to your
attempts to level cities

You are the zealot
who will not force my right hand
to put forth a coup
against your boisterous ways
as you wish God existed

by Jack Freedman

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