MICROWAVE
you are
magnesium flare
are
cast-iron pot
in a microwave
nitroglycerin
tires
on a
747
you are so anti- anti-oxidant
things corrode just looking at you
so anti
your whole molecular structure
must be solidly oppositional
your system breeds confrontation
with every Sting-Police breath you take
and when you
speak
that’s when we know where
the Big Bang went
nothing
residual about
your
radiation
ray gamma, ultraviolet, certificate XXX —
you just dish and dole them out
and speak of
explosive
you the
banned neutron bomb
cobalt-coated
question:
did the dude who
made Blake’s Tyger
shift
the symmetry
a little
question: given the half life of
uranium, plutonium, californium, plutonium
how did I manage
to stay so long
(stirring that
fission fusion
reactor inside you)?