Apple Explosion

“Apple Explosion”

The thundering motion
of a bullet fired from
the barrel of a .45 caliber weapon
is about to carry itself through the core of an apple
in slow motion
as the high speed camera rolls
as a testament of the human eye
watches from the technical booth
that is back stage
and filled with curious onlookers
who are not more
than maybe ten years old
and they are getting hungry
with the waiting of the science experiment
in bullet time to be over with
but the technicians are taking far too long
for prepubescent stomachs can handle
and soon they rebel with little hands
and little demands
for food to be delivered and oh,
god, they want the apple that is about to be shot
by the gun that is being held by their teacher
who dragged them from a bleak public school
at seven o’clock in the morning
just to see some stupid science experiment
that involves a bullet going through a perfectly
good and yummy apple
that could instead be feeding the hunger that
is threatening to consume their rationality
that is quickly being forgotten in the waves of hunger pains
and that is why Mister Officer there is one dead teacher and twenty sixth graders
eating pieces of exploded apple