Cruising Altitude
Cruising Altitude
Coke of snow on the mountains below
And is it any wonder
The wind does blow a lot
Mountaintops shaped like ziggurats
Boys playing with Tonka trucks
Are moving mountains without faith
Probably mining the minerals that make
My iPhone and MacBook run
Like mascara at a wedding or funeral
And I bet that has something to do
With the overfunded military
Inverse of the silos I grew up in
The shadows of
Hanging upside down underground
Having intercourse with missiles that won’t miss
When the strongmen start playing
Catch with the nuclear football
And is that a server farm I spy
Or maybe a cooling center to cool
The fevered computers down
Warm with doing our thinking for us
Parallel with it all it is easier not to know
What is being done due to our doing
And even the above are only guesses
As to what I’m seeing below
But whatever it is there’s a lot of it
And even from way up here it’s huge