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Coins' Awesome Poem, Great Job!

4 years ago
Commended by mizal on 12/29/2019 7:02:50 AM

Five seconds to impact 

The harbinger of death glides away 

The thoughts of the reaper 

are of a hot meal and shower

 

The dropped metal hull descends 

carrying its world-ending poisons

 

Below a family sits in their white boxed house

having their unknown last meal

 

A father, hair slicked neatly and not a wrinkle on his shirt 

Perched sternly at the head of the table 

The patriarch, the grand king of the homely domain 

tyrant over three, at his beck and call

 

A mother, quiet and proper

(louder when Father leaves for work)

All pretty in her stepford dress

her fingernails as red as velvet 

 

A brother, small, loud, rambunctious

few thoughts beyond the cartoons 

or the occasional act of light violence

A tug on the dog’s tail, a cherry bomb in the mail 

 

A sister, the most pious of them all 

(surely she shall be saved with the Second Coming) 

Her prayers round out the dinner table 

nuclear family indeed 

 

Raising forks to their mouths 

one last time 

green beans, potatoes, leftover meatloaf 

hearty and nutritious, the TV blared 

 

“Don’t be a sleaze, buy BigMart Freeze!”

“Powered by rads but safe for the lads!” 

So says the man in the box, his teeth straight pearls 

his eyes alight with manufactured enthusiasm 

 

Father is flipping through the sunday funnies

the last ones that will ever be made

He decides that today is the day 

to finally ask for a small raise in salary 

 

Mother frets about her ugly hair and

the dull color of her nails

She wonders why she spent all those years

toiling away in a suburban Hell

 

Son pushes around the peas on his plate 

scolded a final time by Mother 

He wonders when the boring man will quiet 

So to watch childish brutality and death 

 

Daughter sits silently 

utters one last Hail Mary 

She knows, she knows, she absolutely knows 

that Jesus will save her 

 

The scene is set for the world’s end 

Four seconds to impact. 

 

Coins' Awesome Poem, Great Job!

4 years ago
To think there was a time this would've been dark and thought provoking and not just Fallout fanfic.