Choosing Sides: 7 New Poems by Adam Ford

By | 1 September 2023

The Beginning of the End of the World!
Rom Spaceknight #61 (December 1984)

You chased us across the galaxy.
You got us mad and desperate.
We punched a hole in the sun.

You hounded us from our hiding place.
You pushed us back and scared us good.
We punched a hole in the sun.

Banish our armies and slay our monsters?
Break our robots and nuke our bases?
Nothing left for us to do but
punch a hole in the sun.

Ten thousand pterodactyls
made of shadow-stuff

will swarm across the sky
and spin into a spiral

that will tighten to a disc
and turn into a spear

and the humans will all stop
and raise their hands above

their eyes as one and watch us
as we punch a god-damn hole
through the centre of the sun.

And now there’s a hole in the sun.
A hole right through the sun.
That’s on you.

You mess with us you know we’ll punch
a god-damned hole right through the god-damned
fire-seething plasma-beating
heart of the god-damned Sun.

 


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