As Flies To Wanton Boys Are We To Th' Gods

66 Million years ago Fireball from the sky hits Echoing life-planet, Snuffing almost all in darkness Mouse like burrowing under the inferno. 1750 People harvested like wheat Strong men, children and women Especially women Packed into sea vessels To Build America 1854 Holding stinking potatoes they watch as Ships bulging with grain leave port. Children’s hunger Leached their lives, Imperialism flourishes 1953 We lived in fear. Sky could light up Incinerating us all. Duck and cover. Duck and cover. It was real. Military industrialism thriving. 1954 They live in fear. Numbered arms came to supper and talked in accents. Lives buried by decrees and camps. The future: unbelievable, unliveable. It could happen again. December 2-3, 1984 As they slept, in the night Creped over town Phosgene gas, denser than air, close to the ground Coughing, eye irritation, burning lungs, suffocation. Union Carbide profited. 9/11, 2001 Towers dedicated to wealth crumble to the streets 3,000 gone in dust. Opportunity for war 500,000 and more slain abroad The dominance of oil and hate. March 11, 2011 Millions of sea tons put boats on roads. Doomed reactor irradiating the world. Wait for the effects. Don’t eat the fish. Living better electrically. Now Phone rings in Gaza. Get out now! Run! Rubble. Precision bombing. Gaunt polar bear on the top of the word Fires scorch earth in the night Huracanes eat shorelines And people migrate to find water. Carbon-wealth legacy. Soon Child smelling, picking lilacs Drinking specks of nectar Future, hope Before us.