But Still Singing To Each Other

FALLOUT TRANSPORTED DIRECTLY TO U.S. AFTER 3/11/11

MORE RADIOACTIVE WATER TO BE DUMPED IN PACIFIC OCEAN SOON

FISH WITH 2500 TIMES THE RADIATION LIMIT
CAUGHT NEAR FUKUSHIMA

dreamt of Moby Dick
the Great White Whale
cruising about
with a flag flying
with an inscription on it
I am what is left
of Wild Nature
and Ahab
pursuing in a jet boat
with a ray gun
and jet harpoons
and super depth charges
and napalm
flame throwers
and electric
underwater vibrators
and the whole gory
glorious efficient

military-political
industrial-scientific
technology of
the greatest civilization
the Earth has ever known
devoted to the absolute
extinction and death
of the natural world
as we know it
and Captain Ahab
Captain Death
Captain Anti-Poetry
Captain Dingbat No Face
Captain Apocalypse
at the helm of
the killer ship of Death
and the blue-eyed whales
exhausted and running
but still singing
to each other

--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

White County, Arkansas 1/15/13


RADIATION NETWORK

Hitler explains Sieverts


Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Liverpool 1966


Kendra Ulrich : NRC Meeting on SONGS restart 12/18/12

It sits in your bones.
It sits in my bones.
And it will still
be there long after
we are gone, strontium.
I wonder whose
idea it was?
Was it the government?
Was it the
Christian Scientists?
Sometimes I wonder about them, strontium.
Don't worry on getting drafted.
Don't worry on world war three.
Everything that you're afraid of is inside you already.

--Emily XYZ
Strontium