by Nicole Caruso Garcia

“I can’t confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don’t.”
—Pete Hegseth, Pentagon briefing on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz

I don’t know what weapons will
unleash a third World War
but caution we’ll use sticks and stones
when waging World War IV.

I hope that humankind makes peace;
I don’t presume we’ll fail—
yet cannot shake the vision we
will weaponize a whale.