The Cool Courage of Bomb Squad Officers

Late in the night he woke to a phone call
They'd found a device and it was unstable
They'd thrown a cordon and evacuated
The cool courage of bomb squad officers

He walked through the glass doors dressed in a flak-suit
The silence was deafening. It was so acute
He unscrewed the back-plate revealing the circuit
The cool courage of bomb squad officers

He tried to defuse it, tasting the salt sweat
The striped resistors; a nest of insects
He touched a component, it started ticking
The cool courage of bomb squad officers

The cool courage of bomb squad officers