5

when sarah can
          finally
     say that word

the world will end


          a hot ball of atomic flame
               will burst out of her mouth
     and burn everything within a two hundred and fifty kilometre radius to a golden brown crisp

the people there will be the lucky ones
because then the disease will spread
                              outwards

monstrous deformations will be observed in new-born babies
older citizens will shake uncontrollably
to death
     but perhaps most horribly
     even the strongest of men will suddenly weaken
     and start crying in the streets


sarah will gently stride among the wreckage

     looking