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 Apr 2014 Mary R Short
Jack
What’s that sticking in my back?
Oh…it’s you again
The seemingly burning circle
is the halo upon my head
and the cold metal trigger,
delivers my medicine of lead.

The warm steel is my epitaph
of resentment and regret
as my frigid body embraces
this relief giving threat.
It was inspired by the Beatles song "Happiness is a warm gun"
for years the nuclear industry
has been conducting business
in a leaking kind of way
and the said leaking
is more than likely
happening again to-day

the authorities in charge
of monitoring
are asleep at the wheel
and are not enforcing
their regulatory spiel

Tepco has got some explaining to do
as to why they've let the leaking ensue
Fukishima is their disgrace
over a long period of time
they've let nuclear material
leak into the air and sea space
and it continues to go on...
nuclear particles not been contained
contaminating for hundreds of years
the half life of this scourge
last for eons

but a few months ago
a report did surface
saying that more nuclear material
from Fukishima did flow
folks in the near and far proximity
of the power station
will ever be asking questions
of the nuclear authorities
with regards to not following
safety regulations

they're failing in their duty of care
to their fellow man
seas and animals
and the lands
the news is never good
where the leaking of nuclear material
is concerned
the energy providers
of the world
must be accountable
for the blight
they impose
on the natural world
 Apr 2014 Mary R Short
Momo
There was a chair that was defiled over the years
As the owner pressed his leather skin finger on its smooth light grain
It would blister and bleed
But of course the worry hole would continue to grow

As a boy when he got the chair
He looked at his parents with such despair
Asking "Why is my gift a chair"
While wishing for anything else

While still a boy sitting in the chair
One day he pressed
His smooth skin finger into the arm
Round and round the finger went for hours

The boy soon realized as some years passed
The chair was more than a chair
In a way it helped him cope
With his brothers death

The worry hole began to grow
Deeper and wider in that same smooth light grain
But one day the progress stopped
The boy, once a man, would not be found sitting in the chair

Instead his feet graced the arms
The same exact spot where he'd spend
Hours upon hours rubbing his finger into the grain
Was touched one last time

As his toe pushed off the chair
The last part of him to ever touch
glided across edge to edge
**The worry hole
Its hard to stay the course
   when
       hitting
            rock
                bottom
Hundreds try to cross the hostile border
They seek a better life in Northern lands
Acquiring this dream is of high order
No promise for the future in homelands
They run the gauntlet of patrolling guards
Which disallow entry into America
They want escape from their domestic yards
These people yearn for the soils of Arizona
The journey they'll take is perilous
Some manage a successful traversing
Though the road they've traced is dangerous
Yet they're willing to risk everything
Mexican people are seeking a route out
From land which has no prospective sprout
since the end of December 2013
a sad pall has engulfed out village
residents continually
have tears in their eyes
people we've respected and loved
are suddenly dying
yet another of our village folk
we laid to rest to-day
so may souls taken
in such a short period of time
all of them relatively young of age

we're shocked
we're in a state of disbelief
how can a village
bear the endless grief

of recent time
our village only hears
news of demise
we're in requirement
of brighter tidings
to lift the dolefulness
from our village skies
And the person who loves me
Also really hates me
 Apr 2014 Mary R Short
Momo
Me (11w)
 Apr 2014 Mary R Short
Momo
Just another hollow body
Searching for my
place in
the
world
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