Why live your life
so sullied by anxiety
and needless fear?
Live life instead as if
the nuclear apocalypse
is already here.

As if the intercontinental
bringers of eternal peace
already are suspended
in the sky.
And there’s no time
still left to worry
or to cry..

Over the jug of milk
already toppled over
with the cap off..
when its contents
haven’t even had
the time to spill.

If you allow yourself
to grieve its dairy
goodness
prematurely,
then you are
a communist..
for helping
the Soviets win.