20151112 (Armistice Day)

Land based missiles 450

Carrier based missiles 300

Sea based missiles 432

Air launched missiles 180

Have we learned anything
                        since World War I?

How can I kill you? Let me count the ways

Nuclear annihilation ain’t 

A thing of the past and I’m 

Not talking about rogue states

Or terrorists with a bomb

In a suitcase no I’m merely

Pointing out we have at least

Four hundred and fifty missiles

In hardened silos on the Great

Plains pretargeted and ready 

To go at the twist of a key

Under the sea there are at least

Eighteen Ohio class nuclear

Submarines cruising the

Perimeters of the European

African and Asian land masses

Each equipped with a full payload

Of twenty-four missiles waiting

Only for a few circuits to close

Before arcing to their humanity

Dense zones in our defense

Not to forget we have three 

Wings of B52s maybe each with

Fifteen planes apiece equipped

With no fewer than four cruise

Missiles which can fly low

Avoid radar detection and 

Successfully wipe out entire

Cities the size of Chicago and ten

Nimitz size aircraft carriers 

Capable of unleashing thirty

Fighter bombers each with a 

Nuclear device within minutes

Of notice suppose you’re a citizen

Of some nation other than the US

Who doesn’t jump when Washington

Says jump you know your land 

Could be struck with any of these

Weapons about any time day

Or night we have shown the world

We can do exactly that many times

Over refuel fly from North

Dakota to Libya or from Georgia

To Yemen so you’re constantly

Afraid someone one day might

Say the wrong thing kill the

Wrong person join the wrong

Alliance and the possibility of

Your utter destruction looms

For you and your family your

Friends and neighbors your

Nation and its allies your

Whole section of the planet

Well within the rationale of

Our defense you don’t think

We pay for these bombs just to

Keep them on the shelf Obama

Has already told us over the 

Next ten years we will be

Refurbishing their warheads at

A cost of a trillion dollars

So on this day of peace celebrating

The war that did not end all wars

Look around you it can all be

Glowing cinders in a few hours

Like the gun in the glovebox

That a child finds accidentally

Shoots himself that wasn’t the

Purpose but it was what happened

No need to worry though we're

Exceptional*

c. J.S.Manista, 2015

*http://filosuferz.blogspot.com/2013/12/alone-in-doom-womb.html