Atomic brinkmanship double edged sword of Damocles

Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches
global threat half cocked.

Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the Bible
references Armageddon and doomsday
impossible mission to remain
cool, collected and calm.

Whether affiliated with donkey or elephant
Democrat or Republican viz
blue war red respectively
political hot issues don't amount

to a (Sam) hill of beans
when Sword of Damocles count
approaches zero hour
as global tensions mount

signaling increased chance
trigger finger will free
avast nuclear winter
(across world wide web) re:
leasing plethora, pyrocumulus
mushroom clouds tree

mend us planetary explosions
annihilating webbed wide
 world, an irrevocable
indeed earthlinked debacle

spelling widespread species
multitudinous extinction

ex post de facto after super
bowling powers (wannabe) vied

to wrest empowerment spanning
entire realm sans third rock

from the father, sun and holy ghost,
who turned substantial pockets
of flora and fauna
once populating oblate spheroid ad hoc


significant swaths of life forms
pulverized and/or turned to ash

transformed into radioactive wasteland
giving T.S. Eliot a run for his money
after war mongers brash
lee usurped hegemony
(ruling inhabitants
of Gaia with an iron fist

with a smidgen of flavoring
courtesy of Missus Dash

superfluous taste enhancer,
when sibling burnt offering views
between Venus and Mars incendiary
tolled mourning news
smithereens sole remnant
poisoned every square inch

from weapon of mass destruction

that did (akin to doubting Thomas) cruise
engendering thick noxious fog
disabling fox but not cockroach

while smoldering seas and continents

skull and crossbones didst poach

amidst the gasified, liquified, pureed
where holographic ghoulish super bowl coach

rendering lifelessness home for menagerie


where virtue trounced vice as organisms
(particularly one primate) didst try

(predominant 21st century simians)
tool heave with amity, comity, and empathy
animals and plants an experiment
that went awry

presaging a nuclear winter with nary a winner


implicating mankind as the absolute sinner
instantaneously after Doomsday Clock
signaled point of no return

where grim reaper the sole grinner
feasting on human flesh for dinner.