30:30 2013 - 20
Fertilizer Plant Explosion
"I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death." -Nas
in nuclear physics teaches
matter and energy are Clark
Kent and Superman, one
the other in a flimsy constant
costume. But besides the yellow
sun, our day-to-day planet turns
on twin wonders, reduction
and oxidation. The way things
burn and how fast. Food
goes in, shit and survival
come out. The worst-kept
secret, worse than Clark's
lensless glasses, is all burning
is the same burning. Rot,
feeding, fire, all the same
but for the rate and who
sees it. The atoms don't care
as long as they remember
their names. Simple math will tell
us how many acres a short ton
of ammonium nitrate
would nourish, how many roses
it would have become, and divide
by twelve to determine
how many I'm Sorry bouquets
were delivered in that fervid,
mortal instant.
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