P-38 Lightning

the engine rattles
the cockpit is smeared and grimy;
like the fuselage, streaked with old glue -
and its decorations faint [/dead] and dusty

the grey guns and gears are useless,
and the undercarriage has since detached itself
from the rest, now a solitary machine
without wings with which to fly
and skewed landing gear
Yet such an invention would be worth so much -
if only it was real