Melinite

A poem about war.

Structure of picric acid (lyddite). Via Wikipedia. Public Domain Image.

Melliferous when melted,
Bitter when dusty —
BOOM! — blessed by thundering nitrates;
It sparked The Halifax Explosion,
Thousands died in Northern latitudes.

Melliferous when melted,
Bitter when dusty —
Imperial muskets shredding black bodies;
World World War I reverberates;
Hiroshima, mon amour;
Little Boy, mon amour.

Melliferous supremacy discourse,
Bitter & acrid — old as fuck —
176 muertos, puñeta…fueron 176.

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Picric Acid & colonialism