Fireworks were first invented in China during the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279).
Your prompt is FIREWORKS.
Car alarms proclaim
The impressive M-80
That ate your fingers
Today, fireworks cause pollution, deadly fires, serious injury, trigger PTSD, and are the bane of pets everywhere.
Firework trials with rats and voles
prepared my life as designer:
my guineapigs now called astronauts.
Our sky now blooms with
Its pyrotechnic acne
Like a teenage cheek