An Average Day With Buzz Lightyear
A Poem
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There was a radar anomaly over central Alabama
associated with a weather phenomena
they say.
It looked like a giant thunder storm
all red and yellow on the screen
and traveling fast from West to East
not really unusual in this form.
In 'bama it continued to flourish,
but forming also into South Carolina,
this time spinning
like a dervish
The radar screen lit up with a white hue
bolts from the center then
exiting at the edges of the image
wow, this was something new.
In Huntsville at the Redstone Arsenal
cell phones rattled into a frenzy
every engineer and technician
was fielding a call.
"Did you see anything, tornadoes, hail, heavy rain in Huntsville?" the voice on Fritz's old Blackberry squawked out. "Well no I was in the 9th sub-basement socializing with a female college student and we were intently doing our business when a surface alarm sounded but it was not for us. So we continued to make progress with our lessons. Where are you today?"
Hedley Steerman Brisklow the Sixteenth Earl of Northumberland replied "Here at the Savannah River Site all hell is breaking loose. Rain, hail, snow, there is a man in a red jumpsuit floating in the storm using a jet-pack of some sort. The wind is crazy and it has rained four feet in the last hour." Feeling pressured Fritz tucked in his shirt and answered, "I'll head upstairs and investigate and get back to you ASAP."
The radar image was like a day-glow swirl,
pulsing and throbbing about
the screen in a twirl.
All across the Carolinas storms
appeared and disappeared
here and there then popping
up everywhere.
The National Weather Service technicians
hooted and screamed dancing
like Castral monkeys
abandoning their TV minions.
Some threw their uniforms against the wall
while others peed their pants
"take cover now"
said one, said all.
Huntsville, Alabama has more science guys and engineers and space bureaucrats than anywhere on the planet. So the sight of them streaming out, evacuating the buildings was indeed an unusual spectacle. Fritz noted these movements from his perch on the veranda of the faculty lounge atop the upper forth floor.
Finally getting his bearings he called his Grace the Sixteenth Earl of Northumberland. "Hedley are you there?" he kinda coughed at the phone. "Yes yes I'm still here but now I'm in the basement shelter at the bar. Sweedie, of course you know Sweedie is here with his companion the Duchess of Cadbury. What is happening there?"
Fritz made an effort to be cool, "Some sort of storm passed over and the boys are running amuck. It is raining something that looks like sweet and sour sauce and the wind is ferocious. Aside from that everything is normal. However up on the mountain something happened and there is a crater where Wernher von Braun's chalet stood. Pity, such a nice view from his dining room window. I went there often for drinks and snacks. After he died they substituted a hologram for Wernher and actually, a very nice likeness, although they never did get his accent right."
From the eastern sky there was a bright flash followed by a loud rumble. Then silence. Then a swarm of red demons with pitchforks and pointed tails filled the sky swirling about in a dance that made me recall a writhing pile of night crawlers in a bait bucket.
"Your Grace, you're not at the reactor...are you?"
No answer.
Everything is off line except Door Dash
business is brisk
but credit cards are useless
What a sight in Old Dixie's heart
perhaps a payback for romancing
northern money or selling
bar-b-que from a banned cart.
First Responders are fleeing the area
originally from New York
or Illinois or New Jersey
they are bound for Florida.
And behind them came silicon puppets
bathed in brass and coffee
complete with K-Pop anime
in their wallets.
The storm continues to screech
over the Piedmont
as it headed for the ocean
and a nap on the beach.
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