Thursday, August 15, 2019

081519b


Career Path


I could have been a god,
rolling out worlds
so smooth and fine,
patting them and shaping them,
spheroidal as you please,
baking them to perfection
in the celestial oven, seeding them
with water and organic goodness, but

BAM!

My suns kept exploding,
every … single ... time,
and after I'd burned up
three top-dollar test kitchens
I was expelled.

That's why I'm shoveling neutrons
on this collapsar for a living,
and pawing through second-hand
comets and asteroids,
looking for bargains.

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