(a poem.)

can a youtube debate go so poorly

 

that its loser gets dunked on hard enough

to drive him down to the earth’s core

at such velocity that the planet’s gravitational center

 

shifts, tilting toward his dunk-slammed sternum

and compacting him, under the tremendous sudden pressure,

into the shape and rough texture of a diamond?

 

if so,

then there might be some value to the enterprise

after all