Friday, September 18, 2009

Citizens of the Destroyed

A modern Haiku

By Idaho Bob

He's Radioactive Boy

Left here all alone

His companions all have died


Atomic Sea Bass

Swimming in an empty sea

No fish left to eat


Two wanderers wandering

Together alone

Will their paths ever converge?

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Radioactive Boy looks

He sees the seashore

Far across the barren land


A hungry creature

Atomic Sea Bass evolves

The land awaits him


Step by step, fin by fin move,

Towards a last hope,

Citizens of the destroyed world

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Old memories of the sea

Once blue and calming

Now dark as the night above


Weeks of adapting

New lungs full of blackened sludge

It’s now or never


Emerging from the sea muck

The boy watches on

Atomic light illuminates him

----

Under a broken moon’s glow

On a broken shore

The last unbroken things halt


Despite his instincts

Atomic Sea Bass cries out

To the tall god-like figure


The Radioactive Boy

Sees the glowing god

Is this what took his world away?

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Out of anger, out of fear

Death’s blow delivered

On god’s flesh he will now feed


The meat is acid

Is this god’s last punishment?

His stomach spills out


And on an empty stomach

He lies down

The last sun reddens the withered sky

-Idaho Bob-

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