Wednesday, March 17, 2004

The Dream of Mariamne

n.b. Mariamne is a primordial water goddess

...precious resource...short-sighted efforts...over-privatization of fresh-water market...increasingly scarce and sullied...

By 2050, every nation on Earth will be struggling for clean water.

"Once you run out of water in a resevoir, you have nothing left" ~Dr. Brouwer
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"From space, the planet is blue/ From space, the planet is the territory/ Not of humans, but of the whale" ~Sarah Brightman

Water flows like blood between webbed feed
and silvery scales
Blood mixed with water
Flows in blue veins
and out the open wound
in her side
Spills
onto the ocean floor
soft and black
Something's boiling in that seaweed patch
Pretty green bubbles of DDT and PCBs
rise before her eyes
and POP
a million fragments
Turbo-charged, super cell-destroyers
...Joy is murdered
in the tainted sand
Lips which once greeted the dawn in song
and laughter
muzzled with an oil slick
There are no smiles on those lips
when two million tons of human excrement
mixed in mountain pools with
toxic bodies dumped to hide their stink
settle on her sunken breast
She wakes to find...
there's nothing left
She's already dead.

posted by Be at 01:26

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