Nuclear Waste

I agree with George Carlin;

swimming in polluted waters 

when I was young gave me 

a strong immune system.

As a plumber, I inhaled lead 

fumes, solder smoke, glue and 

cleaner, acetone….smoked 

cigarettes for thirty five years,

drank since I was sixteen…how

glorious my German/Jewish  genes.

I should be glowing in the dark

by now, or maybe, huge anomalies

sprouting from my body….my 

generation was healthy and ate 

good food..drank pure water.

I don’t mean to beat a Fukushima

horse….I don’t mean to split

Gulf oil spills…it’s all waste at the

nuclear level…the brain, the mind…

Nobody intended these disasters

to happen…I didn’t intend to write 

this poem. I think I took the right

fork in the road.