BlueIris
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Sat Apr-26-08 12:44 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/26/08 |
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"Chernobyl"
Once upon a time, the word alone was scary. Now, quainter than this rhyme, it's the headline of a story
long yellowed in the news. The streets were hosed in Kiev, and Poles took more shampoos. The evacuees were brave.
Under the gay striped awning of Europe's common market, half-empty booths were yawning at the small change in the pocket.
As far away as Rome, unseen through weeks of sun, the cloud kept children home. Milk gurgled down the drain.
In Wales, Spring lambs were painted blue, not to be eaten till next spring when...Still tainted, they'd grown into blue mutton.
Then we had had enough. Fear's harder to retain than hope or indifference. Safe and innocent, the rain
fell all night as we slept, and the story at last was dead— all traces of it swept under the earth's green bed.
—Mary Jo Salter
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Sat Apr-26-08 02:06 PM
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Then we had had enough. Fear's harder to retain than hope or indifference.
RL
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Sat Apr-26-08 02:10 PM
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how much damage have we done to the world, to the animals that depend upon us, and the ones that wish they were free of us.
More and more, I think humanity is a global infestation. Poets will know it, and say it better than anyone.
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Sat Apr-26-08 02:30 PM
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Wow, how beautiful, and plaintive...
...and the story at last was dead— all traces of it swept under the earth's green bed.
Thank you for this...
:cry:
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Sat Apr-26-08 05:41 PM
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4. HEY. How great is this? I come home from errands and—COMMENTS. |
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