Number One North Carolina Takes Off Tonight

Lanes like runways and the sky is blue:

It's been said that John Henson's bones are hollow as crack pipes

                               and fallopian tubes,

so that he spears the O-zone like a Zulu--

orange spheres cresting the nets

 burn like the sun and rehab stints.

F-16--They call it a falcon,

but its veins creep back into scales of pterodactyl wings:

pluck off the feathers to find polished bone:

eyes burn like ashtrays  

of Jordan's cologne.

Take offs and landings--

denial versus submission--

How do Spartan shields protect from the future?

When into the sea sinks heavy armor,

you're gonna need wings

to see the colors of heaven,

because extinction comes in baby boy blue,
the blowing of a horn,
and vertigo.

#1 NORTH CAROLINA VS. MICHIGAN STATE

 TIPS OFF TONIGHT AT 7 PM,

FROM AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER.