DEATH STAR 2
Sometimes science seems like a miracle!
how, when we put our minds to it,
we can build a world-melting laser
on a machine the size of a small moon
that looks, albeit, like something even
bigger and more sinister took a few bites
out of it first—you can still see the jagged spires
of scaffolding and space-tarps blowing
in the solar wind. But all of this just affirms
my belief that you need a great evil
to get things done: rebels, lawlessness,
untidiness in the provinces. People who don’t know
what to do with their freedom and, so,
scarcely deserve it. With people like that
loose in the universe, it’s best to strike first
(again), to crush their spirit with the weight
of our great achievements. Unlike them, we get rich
for the right reasons, fighting for order and investment
opportunities, the right to run the cosmos
like a business. Shame not everyone sees it
this way. They destroyed us once. They’d be fools
to think they could do it again.
