For Aaron Bushnell
fiction by Jonathan M. Katz
He used a thermos. It was red and blue.
I doubt the history was on his mind,
of how it was that empires came to find
the many things a vacuum flask can do.
Not only holding lighter fuel, or foam,
or food to keep the tempers cool at night,
but gases—which, more often than you’d like,
drive million-dollar missiles into homes.
Keep us breathing fire!
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