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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts) Thu Jan 16, 2014, 11:37 AM Jan 2014

Downstream (For West Virginia)

Downstream (for West Virginia)

What deep delusion
the body politic
that searches luggage
at airport checkpoints
looking for water bottles
that could become
weapons of terror
yet does not inspect the
tanks of toxic chemicals
that leak poison
into the rivers on which
so many lives depend–
incognizant that, in the end,
we all live downstream.

–Lucinda Marshall

http://lucindamarshall.com/2014/01/16/downstream/

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