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No One Could Have Imagined
Watched Keenly and Closely by Intelligences Greater Than Our Own
It Was Wondrously Warm for a Fall Night
No One Dreamed of That Unerring Missile
Those Who Have Never Seen a Living Martian Can Scarcely Imagine the Horror
I Needed the World to Stay Level
I Am Not Great at Thinking on My Feet
I Pushed the Gas and Brought Myself Closer
My Complicit Heart Racing Back out to the City
This Is Bows and Arrows Against the Lightning
Not as Fast as Your Heartbeat
We Stare into the Furnace of the West
And It Rained Down Darkness on the Land
Each Simply a Thing That Was Done
To Think I’ve Counted You and You Have Counted Me Among the Dead
Our Little Solar-System Seed-Bed
℗© 2020 Ben Zucker
