Saturday, February 18, 2017

A TV Billionaire

A TV billionaire becomes president. 
He wants to make America great again.
He wants to build walls and cast out 
eleven million souls into the darkness.

NASA once planted a flag on the moon
(some say in violation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967)
and he wants to take both the moon and the flag back.
Even as ICBMs blanket the earth,

he promises to build more warheads, stealth bombers,
drones, fighter jets and destroyers. 
I long for news but when it comes, I’m disappointed.
I look for signs of life and try to decode

the signals in the sky. My mind balloons out
but everything seems so far away. 
My telescope cannot see into the past
or predict the future.  

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