Grey

POETRY

by Ashely Adams // Illustration by J.R. Bolt

     I am NOT saying Raytheon is perfect or great. I am saying that
this is probably more grey than it initially seems.
     I used to work for a company that undeniably did terrible things.
They also helped put a man on the moon.
     Grey.

— A Twitter response to Raytheon sponsoring the 2021 Hugo Awards

when an object strikes
the earth with enough force
it will eject particles
high into the atmosphere,
sometimes beyond into the boundaries
of space.

so perhaps when that grey
missile hits
the grey concrete 
of a school, apartment, mosque,
a wedding venue
it will send those fragments far up,
and we may once again
send a man to the surface
of that grey moon.