Mat Gleason
NUKED

i've got a goofy smile on the old face
she writes poetry and Osama Bin Laden
may have a nuclear bomb
and it is all you read about
with no confidence in anyone in Washington
and a truck rumbles by at 1:43 a.m. and it
could be the roar of Osama's bomb or
the roar of love in the old heart
she writes poetry
she's taking a drawing class
those fingers i so want on the old skin
have charcoal on them
and any day now we may be reduced to ash
and it has a maddening
aspect, this numbness.
This numbness of
love and annihilation.