Ode to a Drone
Hell-raiser, razor-feathered
risers, windhover over
Peshawar,
power's
joystick-blithe
thousand-mile scythe,
proxy executioner's
proxy ax
pinged by a proxy server,
winged victory,
pilot cipher
unburdened by aught
but fuel and bombs,
fool of God, savage
idiot savant
sucking your benumbed
trigger-finger
gamer's thumb
Copyright Credit: Amit Majmudar, "Ode to a Drone" from Dothead. Copyright © 2016 by Amit Majmudar. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: Dothead (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2016)