Sky Contains the Plans - Softcover

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Matthew Rohrer is the author of The Others (Wave Books, 2017, winner of the Believer Book Award), Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002) and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at NYU.

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A TOY SPACESHIP CALLED

ALMOND CHICKEN

VS the Mega Gun. The Almond

Chicken wins. The Almond

Chicken VS the Disasteroid.

The Disasteroid is victorious.

The unopposed Disasteroid rips

through the Earth.

The Earth is smashed into a billion

tears. The tears spread

out across the sky.

From each little piece

of the Earth a toy space ship lifts off.

Revenge in its little heart.