[net.poems] Star Peace

gmf@uvacs.UUCP (05/27/84)

Star Peace

I'm waiting for a weekday hero,
no sorcery or space escapes,
just a natural kindness
and a gift for blinding Death
with laser-like illuminants,
so people seated awkwardly
in X-ray waiting rooms
will see their shadows glorified,
so people drunk with bleeding
through any openings we have or give
will bathe in massless photons
as the red blood cools and blackens,
so all the people I could mention
but who would make this poem too long
and probably depress you,
will liquefy to light,
the only thing, some physicists say,
which really lasts.


July, Aug, Oct 1981

Gordon Fisher