For Thomas Pynchon

Rocket Limerick

There once was a writer whose pinch on,

twixt thumb and forefinger, flicked a switch on,

sent across the sky screaming,

in the morning light gleaming,

a sound-breaking rocket of mention.

The V-2 rocket was fascist Germany's most terrifying weapon, working its deadly destruction at greater-than-sound speed. Fascism is never very far away, not when Extra Pound makes an appearance - or even more so, when he doesn't seem to.

Hello Extra.