Thursday, May 31, 2012

DOWNWINDER COMPENSATION


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     How would you like
To go to your mailbox
      And pick up a $50,000 tax-free check?
Only in your dreams.
      Right?
Not necessarily.
      That’s what the United States Government
Would pay you
      If you get cancer.
Deal?
     UNEQUIVOCALLY NO!  Insult me not.
My health can’t be measured in dollars.
      Why did the Government
Only test the atomic bomb above ground
     When the wind was blowing north
Towards a sparsely populated area
     If they didn’t know the inherent dangers?
Betrayal.  Heartache.  Anguish.
     Leukemia.  Miscarriages.  Birth defects.
Eventually a whole array of cancers over
     A 50-year-plus span.
Loved ones.  Young and old.
     Infinite suffering.
How do you compensate for that
     My Country Tis of Thee?

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