A pipeline full of knives
Breaks open
Knives start shooting out everywhere
Thunking into the trunks of trees their handles quivering long after impact
Shivering limbs dropping leaves on top of shining piles of knives
Knives slicing the air at one thousand miles per hour
No head of state will get anywhere near all those sharp pools of knives
They make lots of arguments about why we need more pipelines of knives
Knives clattering gushing out constantly
Wildlife fleeing
Blood spraying everywhere
And great lakes of knives reflecting the moonlight
Bright as day
— Brad Liening lives in Minneapolis, MN, and at bradliening.blogspot.com. Recent work has appeared in World Hunger.