The clock keeps ticking.
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK.
It has not stopped since
Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Three Mile Island,Chernobyl
and Zaporizhzhia.
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK.
Closer to midnight
with each strike or two.
Morbier’s clock may be needed
to remind us of the danger.
TICK-tock-TICK-Tock-TICK.
Power grids and greed and more
lead us into endless war.
What did he want nuclear records for?
TICK-Tock-TICK-tock-TICK.
What financial gain was sought
to hide such secrets in his house?
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK
Or what power was sought
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK
by fascist bullies with threats
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK
holding hostage democratic republics
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK
with nuclear threats, treason
TICK-tock-TICK-tock-TICK
and crass insurrection
TICK-TOCK-TICK-tock-TICK
to seize re-election?
TICK-TOCK-TICK-tock-TICK
Which enemies hold him
and our nuclear secrets close?
TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK
Merrick Garland, reset the lever!
TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK
TICK….
annarino writes 