Cling

On its back,
My industrial strength magnet
Proclaims
Mighty Mag!
(Made in U.S.A.)

In plain view
My white and gray refrigerator
Whimpers
Sanyo.

Mighty Mag has clung
To Sanyo for so long
That Sanyo now attracts
The odd dropped paper clip.

If I tried
I could pry
Mighty Mag off Sanyo.

Left to their own devices
The two would hold fast
Perpetually stuck together.
Or would they?

The decay period for aluminum
Is 100 million years.
The decay period for nickel
Is 200 million years.

It is going to be 100 million lonely years
For Mighty Mag.