Jaundiced morning sky bleats of hammer blast
tip-toe sniper tipping the balance please ensure today
remains always virus free too young for revolution
too old for reform shot down flight no escape
blind eye set in frame nymphs with aerodynamic ears
hunched over decryption devices decode dead secrets
where meaning cannot be located life as a rough copy
of shrapnel marks on puppets no strings attached
wired to the last multispecialist of the superscience
saluting the sealed well hyperventilated safe complex
colossal filter screens cogs and cogito make
microstructures of history when we’ve drawn a blank
a MiG at dusk a pasty sky over patchy earth
decisive victory an incentive for incendiary device
circle of melted snow around the blasted out dacha
ring of ash ring of fire cracked sound of distant bells