what’s needed

is some kind of capturing

or subduing device

an ingenious method

to destabilize

the Chinese puffball,

to paralyze

the download,

to scramble

the Beijing-to-Balloon

covert instructions,

to neutralize its

ill-gotten, 60,000 feet

meandering booty—

some good-guy mechanism

to crush their

under (over?) cover

clandestine operations