Nine.
Oblong green triangle symbol is finally strong enough to begin.
It takes off, leaving the cactus behind
and swords between mountains over great cities
along twisting riverbeds until, as if drawn there
by some invisible force, it arrives at the now deserted
Gettysburg battlefield.
The crowds return to their 19th century homes.
Lincoln's returned to Washington.
The only thing remaining on the field
is the mangled corpse of the ground-made chicken bowl combo.
The oblong green triangle symbol hovers gently
above the ground a chicken bowl combo,
sending down hundreds of thin, exploratory, compassionate
green rays trying to understand.
Then a shiver of pity and outrage
runs through the symbol, and it speeds away.