iceman poem # 2

there’s another theory out about my death I’m interested of course in how I died it was pretty sudden it’s not a new idea the basic part aristotle and plato both thought of and then velikovsky but now I’ve been added to the equation seems a meteor a bolide (what did we know about them then?) swung in low sizzled the sinners of sodom and gomorrah like sausages on a spit knocked disobedient phaeton from the sky before smashing on the alps where I was simply minding my own business the impact punched an arrow from my quiver into my shoulder though it was probably shock waves that did me in and what had I done anyway, I ask? still, it’s a warning we shouldn’t carry weapons on our bodies even if we’re sure they’re not loaded maybe we should tell arizona

© 2011 Jacqueline Jackson