more than once
i lay inside an intercontinental ballistic missile
my legs outside the tube
my body inside
fitting a precision optical device
immediately below three re-entry bodies
a.k.a. bombs
so that we could determine exactly
where the missiles were oriented
clamped to their mounting rings
a few thousandths of an inch error
multiplied by a few thousand miles down range
might mean we would completely destroy
the wrong city
The Ace Hotel Notebook 