Important Enough to Bomb
by Thomas Behan
Their power is up there, but what
is important, important enough
to bomb, resides down here. I
am down here, and it’s good
to know I matter. That I
am what is the matter.
These bombings tell me I am
not yet finished scaring them.
Prima facie proof of my power.
I hide in my subterrain where
they imagine seeds of their
destruction growing hydroponically
in rooms of my own manufactured
sun. Because they now own the
shining original and stand closer
than I to its radiating blessings.
Every day soon after their sun rises
I hear them again reminding me
they think they are losing and
it’s still worth millions more
of their precious dollars
to deliver new bombs
upon me—then night sweeps
bombers from the sky and I begin
wondering if I have lost at last. In the
morning, again, they remind me I have not.
Thomas Behan is a writer living in Northern Virginia. His work has been published in Isele Magazine, Cinnabar Moth Literary Collections, and in The George Washington University Press. His literary fiction short story “Symbiosis” was published in Secant Publishing’s anthology titled Best Stories on the Human Impact of Climate Change, and that story was nominated for the Secant Publishing Prize. He has also published a short story collection through Alien Buddha Press.
