Sauron

Written back in December '21

birds are real,
and the workover rig
miles off in the distance
blinks its Sauron-like
red eye at me to prevent
metal red eyes from slamming
into it like three times three
and the prime number after it

metallic birds that is,
ones that sound like
like money printers
in the Federal Reserve

what other strange thoughts
abound after the sun goes down?

the orange column of heat nearby
has a large column of white in
line of sight with it

and there’s a water-filled onion
at the zenith of the snow pole,
and another eye of Sauron
above that staring at me

maybe the gateway to hell
Is before my eyes, and
this is evidence of the
spiritual realm that the
non-believers have been
searching for

or it’s just that a water tower
is near a flaring oil well
by happenstance, and
you’re looking for spark
in all the wrong places

especially in a place
where reactive hydrocarbons
are being fracked and disposed

then we’ll see hell,
natural hell maybe,
Kuwait in ‘91
all over again

if anyone is Sauron,
it’s the idiotic human race