Shannon Gallup

English 10
Ms. Gardner
12 December 2014

Surgical Strike
Clean, clean, it all must be cleaned.
Open, exposed-- by overhead lights to illuminate impurity
Four masked faces, like four opposing forces,
masked to protect from low slinking gas.
Four pairs of eyes scanning where next, what next, who next
Open, exposed-- mans only protection, praying behind thin exposed flesh,
ravenously ripped apart by flashing blades.
One surgical strike, one blinding flash-One inch, one quarter of-oops, we missed.
Go again.