66 years old and nobody’s

cutting your funding

must be nice to be an atom bomb

and not have to worry about

whether you’ll get your next

Social Security check

well I hope they’re taking

good care of you

you being so old now

wouldn’t want you to fall down

and break something

yeah these young punk WMDs

didn’t know what the world was like

when you were born

back then they treated you

with respect and handled you

like the delicate baby you were

now they just slap together

some plutonium and deuterium

stick it in a warhead and add on

an order of fries

sad

well we’ve got all this nuclear

waste and all kinds of radioactive

crud that needs to be used

for something

they don’t make ’em like you

anymore old baby boy

happy birthday

you get around on a cane now

watch yourself crossing the streets

and when some punk WMD comes rapping

on to you about how cool he is

you tell him–listen sonny

just hope you never get blown up

I’ve lost a lot of friends that way

you know with all that’s going on

in the world I almost forgot

about you and your birthday

funny the things you forget

you take care now

and stay inside

there’s some bad stuff in the air

coming from Japan

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, VT.

(and say hello to Vishnu for us)