Save Them All

from Sorry State by Christopher Thomas Elliott

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“Ready, aim, fire,” commands the admiral.
I show no respect
Lowering my firearm
As I stagger down the deck.
Torpedoes missing us
Strike the dolphins in the deep.
Shrapnel strikes the albatross.
So-called killer orcas sleep.

“Save them all,” you say.
“Save them all.”

Sweetheart, once you taught me care
For creatures great and small.
You did not grieve for the generals
But their horses when they fall,
The camels struck by steel,
The hatchlings torn from trees,
Every crow cut down when bullets stray,
Spiders crushed by armies.

“Save them all,” you say.
“Save them all.”
“Sorry, sweetheart no,
You’ll never save them all.”

If fire, flood, and drought
Sink the ship and we go down
I lament only the fact
That rats and deckhands drown,
For the brown-eyed bat should fly,
And the squid should dance and swim.
Swaggering, the admiral hollers “fire.”
I turn and aim at him.

“Save them all,” you say.
“Save them all.”
“Sorry, sweetheart no,
You’ll never save them all.”

Ready, aim, fire.

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from Sorry State, released May 1, 2020

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