- Plutonium, named after the Ruler of hell
- Invented in a science lab
- Created in artificial Uranium hells
- They call them reactor wells.
- Uranium, Thorium, names that ought to strike fear.
- Radioactive things that decay slowly, over thousands of years.
- Til, tiny particles no one can ever see,
- Fly out of atoms and strike them.
- Then the fun begins.
- Uranium, Thorium, can radioactively decay.
- There are certain of their children who are dangerous and fey
- And plutonium is a member of that game.
- Plutonium can do more than decay.
- It can break in two
- Plutonium! made by the pennyweight, made by the ton
- Turned into bombs, dropped on Nagasaki,
- Built into armories, that can destroy cities by the thousands.
- Monstrous Giant Spears of Death. Armaggedon's key.
- Oh Fukushima! and we put them into water.
- We put them into water to heat it to a boil
- We sold it to the world, as a means to save men from toil
- Plutonium would save the world
- from toil and pain.
- Plutonium would provide boundless energy
- So cold northerners would never freeze again
- But with barbaric idiocy,
- they put it in bottles that break
- And when they broke, they broke with mighty energy.
- Oh Fukushima!
- No water! It gets hot
- Fuel Rods melt. Zirconium burns!
- The storage pools are on top of the reactors
- They melt and burn too.
- Fires burn, hot and unstoppable
- As plutonium and U235 do what they do
- They melt together and each atom breaks!
- That is what they did!
- Oh Fukushima!
- Scatter and burn! Each fission reaction releases a stew of children!
- Plutonium becomes barium and strontium!
- It "bursts" when a neutron hits it
- becoming a smoking, melting metallic stew.
- They call this stew corium.
- Oh Furkushima Corium!
- It is a blob, a monster, an ever burning fiery magma.
- So hot it burns water!
- So unstoppable it burns through the places man thought he
- A Creature of nightmares and holocausts.
- A Child of Hope and hate.
- A man-made Demon.
- Smoking into the air, dissolving into the water.
- Monster Corium! Oh Fukushima!
- This demon released;
- That only the hubris of men thinks can be contained.
- that erupted, erupts into the world as a spirit of death.
- ... and maybe end our lives.
- Forming Hot particles that burn humans to death.
- spreading around the world in plumes, radioactive wreaths.
- Poisoning the North Atlantic, North America with fallout in dust and rain.
- A statistical nightmare of Cancers, leukemias, weakness and pain.
- It burns til it is all smoke. And it kills all manner of folk
- Far from where it is released.
- Oh Fukushima!
- Will you kill us all?
Thoughts on politics, economics, life and creative works from the author including poetry
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