hope to be asleep when the bombs go off. don’t wanna live through nuclear winter. deadlocked in the eye of the cigar cherry. pandora’s box will finally spit us out. hot vengeance. the escalator of doom has no off switch in this macy’s. the lucky ones will wake up as pompeii cinders. sitting ducks billed for the birdshot. x-ray oblivion. radiation poisoning. it’ll be like a solar eclipse. cold arctic weather. glassy deserts. no way to grow crops. volcano law. we all lose. history. cannon fodder. superman, throw those nukes into the sun again. ninety seconds to midnight. this mexican standoff will leave no survivors. a pox upon thee, j.r. oppenheimer. god damn you, harry truman.

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Nicholas Barnes earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at Southern Oregon University. He is currently working as an editor in Portland, and enjoys music, museums, movie theaters, and rain. His least favorite season is summer. His favorite soda is RC Cola.