The Committee to Nuke Elysium

History isn’t
the devastating bulldozer they say it is.
It leaves underpasses, crypts, holes
and hiding places. There are survivors.
History’s also benevolent: destroys
as much as it can: overdoing it, sure,
would be better, but history’s short
of news, doesn’t carry out all its vendettas.
 
History scrapes the bottom
like a drag net
with a few rips and more than one fish escapes.
Sometimes you meet the ectoplasm
of an escapee and he doesn’t seem particularly happy.
He doesn’t know he’s outside, nobody told him.
The others, in the bag, think
they’re freer than him.