Chaff
Naturally
as you have seen
I spend hours
sowing clouds of
metallized glass fibre
or aluminum or plastic
about me
like a sea of smoke
that my intentions
may be obscured
because nobody approves
of young women
raising armies of puppets
or drugging the crowd
with a fog of opium
and pleasure
while telling everyone
how important they are
this obscuring
of the obvious
is a necessary part
of my business and only
another practitioner
of the same magic
would even notice
because
I am ordinary
and honesty shines
from me like a beacon
but I ask you
what would happen
if one day we chose to
forget these
countermeasures
to turn in the sky
and let the missiles hit
would we fall to pieces
would we fireball
like the stars
when they shudder
and die.
The effect of chaff on the display of a Würzburg Riese radar.
