KIRTLAND - BASE OPERATIONS
Frozen
into procedures, a hot pilot's yoked mind force-fed oxygen behind a dark visor,
a huge blood-gland pumping bile through computerized
circuits, products of long unbroken chains of hi-tech sticks
and stones...
| Rockeyes' explosive
motes— |
Snakeyes' ruby optics, Walleyes'
seeking new targets in Black & white visions from the past...HARMS
hunger for microwave ovens, Bullpups
pull up short to Sidewinders' birdlike hearts pumping cold
neutrons, Sparrows spread their suicidal feathers, and
a beautifully plumed Phoenix
rises through the heat of its own marrow.
One
bird cloned evolves a family
of feral hunters emitting a familiar
odor: Enchilada Air Force, Corsairs
fat on the Captain's machine
gun pods bugged with instrumentation planing through a sickened
jaundiced sky.
