Brett Axel

1999

A Smart Bomb 
Wouldn’t want to be dropped. Might get Together with other smart bombs to discuss Alternative employment possibilities like Demolishing old buildings. Then debate the virtues Of restoration, at least taking them down Carefully, to salvage reusable materials. 

Several could open doors for all bombs: start A mentoring project in the armory: old cannon balls With the latest hollow point bullets Listening to speeches about social conscience. 
Soon bombs are producing art and arguments Born of a frustration at the lack of opportunity For smart bombs to make meaningful contributions. 

Can you see young people expressing their solidarity With bombs by exploding themselves in cities and on Military bases? Or a bomb specialist joining The View. 

Tommy Hilfiger marketing a line of 
Expensive clip-on fuses for bomb wannabes who 
Drink too much and go to bad movies
 
Before you know it, parents are giving warnings To keep away from after hours munition clubs Worried their children might get rounded up By the government and dropped on Kosovo. 

Brett Axel