Massive Ordinance Air Bomb

by Devon Vose


  

The painting of The Scream
with howling mouth,
20,000 pounds
of better Daisy Cutter,
the bomb used to demolish
jungle in Vietnam,
was tested today in Florida.

Reporters watched
from eight miles out,
not as impressive as
the mushroom cloud
over Nevada in the forties.
One general said,
"It has limited use
if it just destroys
the surface. We need
Earth Penetration."

Rumsfeld looked a little
pale today, announcing
this new American obscenity,
perhaps he's being eaten
from the inside.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DEVON VOSE's  poetry has been published in numerous magazines including Convolvulous, West Wind Review, Jeopardy and The Written Arts (a publication of the King County Arts Commission as well as in Chapbooks from Bighorn Press: 1994 Ghost Child, 1996 Resoving Oliver, 1997 Total Knee , 2002 Twin Deer in Our Yard Vs. Mr. King.