Firecrackers

Dragons went zigzag
in that new year parade
you like to remember so much
in Chinatown, New York
way before 11 of the ninth month
and you heard fuses
of firecrackers
way up in the sky
like a melody bloating your ears
with drums of poetry
and Aztec maracas of war
we knew it was coming to this
we knew we had it coming
firecrackers loud
like trucks howling forever
like Old World Leviathans
and Atlantic Sea Krakens
opening their filthy jaws
to swallow entire cities.
But the firecrackers
unlike plain fireworks
fused with paper
lit with matches
they burst in the sky
my heart among them
spraying poetry all over this city
of future debris captured on films
to praise this Nation O’ Bastards
when all it should do is retreat.