In the Next Life, Canto I, stanzas 75-78

Our traffic count was back down yesterday. It was just a one-day spike. We must find another way to promote this blog. Out of disappointment, and because we are almost caught up with Jeff's Facebook postings, I am allotting only four stanzas today:

So, will the founders have an easy go?
Not if someone can change the comet’s course.
The founders are involved, so they must know
‘twill take a lot of raw atomic force.

The nation-states can scrape up some of that,
but to be sure, they’ll want to send it all,
and even though each power’s thought a rat
by others in the club, they make the call.

Accordingly, a plan is drawn in haste
to gather all the nukes from ’round the globe.
Some weather satellites will be displaced.
As well, a would-be astronomic probe.

I guess the founders aren’t so off-the-hook.
It’s possible that J-1 will be beat.
If they’re to clinch the deal, it starts to look
like they are back to practicing deceit.

©2010 Louis A. Merrimac