The Warning


So we bought
The time machine
And used it

And there we were
The exact time
April 13, 1973
Everything just
The way it was
Give or take
Some details lost
In the intervening

And we waited
With our toasted
Pre-inflation sandwiches
And waited
For ourselves
To walk in

But we never arrived

And it was then
That we began
To take on
The Sickness

Every morning waking
With another one inside us

Hungry for a life
And scarcely the years
To feed them


#NaPoWriMo 2014 poem number 13

© Brendan Bonsack
April 2014