SandScript 2020

Polaris
Reno Roethle
The shining
North Star. Guide
travelers with your
brilliance, across the
ocean, from afar.
Deep below the depths,
black water hides terror,
unleashed in a few steps.
Gracefully, your MIRV’s fly,
launch in arcing parabola.
Poison ash from the sky.
Silent and deep, from the
ocean you rise. With a
hellish rumble, your plume
tracing. Oh, your guiding
light, is melting our eyes.
POETRY
Hydrogen warhead, fire from the sea.
Thermonuclear furnace, our creation meant
to be. Polaris, guide us to destruction with nuclear
fusion.
You shining beacon
of mass murder,
technological
perfection.
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