The Cool Courage Of Bomb Squad Officers

Late in the night he woke to a phone call.

They'd found a device and it was unstable.

They'd thrown a cordon and evacuated.

The cool courage of bomb squad officers

He walked through the glass doors dressed in a flak-suit.

The silence was deafening. It was so acute.

He unscrewed the back-plate revealing the circuit.

The cool courage of bomb squad officers

He tried to defuse it, tasting the salt sweat.

The striped resistors; a nest of insects.

He touched a component, it started ticking.

The cool courage of bomb squad officers

The cool courage of bomb squad officers