GHETTO

 

The ghetto of the Rumanians crammed

with hood rats, trapped in the nets

of the libidinous spiders from the West

is maddeningly gyrating as in the centrifuge

of a uranium enrichment facility

their weight, their blood, their scream

are imbued with radioactive ash they are

sprinkled with camphor and blood

from the mines. Spiders with long paws

grasp them by the belly and fertilize them

so that they seem to be descended

from plutonium. From the Rumanian

substance will emerge the most terrible bomb.