Friendly Fire

"Some say the world will end in fire..."

Robert Frost

The math is easy;

43 parts polystyrene,

33 parts gasoline,

21 parts benzene

Leave to gel.

That's the new kind.

Blistering Death 2.0.

The stuff is,

what they call,

designed for controlled ignition,

meaning,

what we call,

difficult to ignite.

You'll need something

reliable

to get it going.

They say,

use thermite.

If you want the original

you'll need AV-gas at 100 octane.

You cut in the naphthenic acid

and then the palmetic.

That's where the name

comes from,

you know.

Just take the first two syllables,

and turn them

into a word.

Cute.

Now this is very important;

don't smoke around the original.

It wasn't ever designed for,

what they call,

controlled ignition.

This led many weapons system operators,

what we call soldiers,

meaning kids really,

so tired and tense

they can't put two thoughts together,

usually so sick they wouldn't be

allowed in a hospital,

to light one cigarette,

their last link to normalcy,

and become...

well the word they use is

fratricides,

but the systems operators,

those kids

they just call it

a crispy critter.

It's what we call

dead.

E.