Friday, August 9, 2019

Kind of Like Playing Asteroids

Got our workload set to about a billion ergs
converted to steam-boiler units.
Too bad we have to dodge these sharp icebergs.
Wondering what danger lurks,
we dodge a berg about every twenty-eight minutes.
We had our workload set to about a billion ergs
before we were overtaken by the Turk-
ish Revellee, as we sailed upon the lowlands
low, taking on brine and dodging icebergs;
then boarded by berserker
Norse sea-pirates. Pilot, let us make for the headlands.
Cut power, cut power to slow down the icebergs!
Because the icebergs aren’t moving, we are—
good thing our skull-hull's made of granite—
ideal battering ram for icebergs.
The icebergs shatter into jagged shards
as we steam through
tall, beautiful Titanic—
workload set to about a billion ergs
to melt those soft icebergs.