Changing Worlds

CHANGING WORLDS .. An' Unc' Nathan - Well.., he just kept right on .., You.., (he coughed a long one) eyes.., They gonna' be square.. I blasted another. 'All that killing', said Ma.., Lighting Grandpap's pipe.., Pausing.., for her own pleasure.., Then passing it on. Brains blew all over the screen. Big Sis' Charlotteen - out corner of my eye.., Breezing in from work, Dropping ash down her blouse, reading mail ., Blown smoke, through nose.., hanging. Cigarette in teeth.. 'Ma.. gotta' date.., got any microwave?' Flick of wrist ., I laugh out.., More aliens annihilated.., Aunt Elz-beth leaned in closer., spilt her special 'medice'-whisky peering too far in., A glance ., it dropping off her chin . 'These 'puter things.., That ain't no life' I hit pause. 'An' look at all the harm it brings' Depressing the button.., While all about, Rolled tobacco, tugged, swigged, bickered, argued and snickered, But nothing came through that, 'thick skull o' mine'. Nothing got delivered.., An yet.., way back when., O'er my shoulder.., forever.., They all watched me save the planets.., We all knew we were all heroes, Kept stopping by as I solved the worlds. Stopping by.., even now, decades away.