The Little Prince and the Air Force Pilot.

Elmusa, Sharif S.

The Little Prince and the Air Force Pilot

   "You should have seen the imploded children
   you have killed in your last air raid,"
   said the little prince to the air force pilot
   he had chanced on planet F52.

   "I did not mean to kill children,
   when I dropped the bombs,"
   answered the pilot.

   "If you had not meant to kill them
   why, then, did you let your bombs fall
   on a tall building, full of apartments?
   Apartments are where children live
   like bees live in beehives
   and birds live in nests on the trees,
   and ants in anthills.
   What a lethal life you lead."

   Unfazed, the pilot retorted,
   "I was after the monsters
   who hid in the building."

   "May I point out,"
   said the little prince,
   pointing his forefinger at the pilot,
   "children are children,
   they spend their time bonding
   with important toys and ball games;
   they cannot be responsible
   for who lives with them in the building."

   Still, deeply upset, the little prince turned
   to the small fox lying by his feet;
   and, without preface, he said,
   "the logic of grown-ups is odd, isn't it?"