Cathrine Lee
THEIR FUTURE IS DEPLETED (FALLUJA, IRAQ)
OURS IS SPENT (FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN)
Back then in 2006 Iraqis were our enemies. They had mutilated and hung out to display four dead mercenary warriors born our country. So we called them terrorists: "Bitches, See you in hell…" as our soldiers showered town with phosphorous tracer bullets fashioned out of euphemistically-termed "dense metal" (dense as uranium, called "depleted" yet radioactive enough to shatter DNA). We showed them a thing or two, upped the ante on brutality. Made example of them in land our bibles still call "holy" cradle of civilization wholly ruined now see how many stillborn and deformed Iraqi children deplete their future. Back then in 2011 Japanese were economic partners. They paid dearly for our nuke plant plans to build near ocean water over earthquake fault lines, tried cost-cutting on components, shoddy workmanship. We thought them a model minority, then sold them a bill of goods: fuel rods loaded with plutonium that, by the way, exceeded design spec limits. Euphemistically-termed "safe power" (safe as long as generators kept the cooling fluids flowing). Weather showed them fluids flowing, all right, our mother nature upped the ante on raw power. This maximizing profit was exposed in March 2011: in mushroom clouds spun as "hydrogen" explosions that later were admitted to have been at least 3 cores melted down and out, spent fuel aerosolized into plutonium nanoparticles circling with the jetstream, precipitating snow and rain, no word exists for high number of Sieverts- contaminated killing cooling water dumped to Pacific fisheries, still radiating and will for eons ever. For now our invisible nuclear powered saints hoard riches, profits gained. Soon enough comes payback time: for all of us, our generations' future lies fueled with radioactive silence when survival just might could have been spent.
© 2013 Cathrine A. Lee