Mama I hear you
I hear you screaming out
Helen Caldicott
I hear you laughing out
loud over
that
bottle of wine
that story
about Linus Pauling
Barry Commoner
that story
of baby teeth
strontium 90
You stood there taking
the rocks as they
called you dirty reds
while you tried to save
the world
pushing a baby stroller
warning
warning
about
milk
babies
bomb shelters
"the fallacy of safety!"
there is
there is
there is
no (safe) place to hide
that, my friends, was the good old 1950s
tonight, oh mom,
what are you saying
from the sky?
are you shaking your head
in dismay as
radiation
spews
spews
back in Japan where we blew them to hell?
dear god, they are saying: move
the children
away from
the melting plants!
but where
oh where
can they move
them to?
$54 billion in loans for more
of these fission monsters
and billions more for modernizing
bombs
digging up more uranium
from our mother earth
building more monsters
spewing more poisons
cancering and monstering
us all
there are a few of us talking
shaking our heads-
(mostly women)
why always women?
talking only to ourselves?
most are sleeping
and having a nuclear love affair---
tonight I took a walk and looked at the sky
tonight I looked in the monk's eyes
there were pools of love
words of compassion
for the Japanese
there were pools
of love
at the monastery
on the hill
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