Sr– George Bush said ‘we are a nation of communities a brilliant diversity spread like stars like a thousand points of light in a broad & peaceful sky’ Jr George Bush said ‘I’m the commander see I don’t need to explain I do not need to explain why I say things’ she lies on her back watching the weirdness unfold in the air wanting an explanation sometimes men are highly reactive turn yellow & quickly decay he-is-not-he-is-not-one-of-them she prays
January first & sorrow sorrow for the year & all that is gone ebola
souls polio souls terror souls Gamboru Ngala-Mali-Jos etc
Korean ferry MV Sewol Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia Air-
lines Flight 17 Air Algérie Flight 5017 Indonesia AirAsia Flight
8501 this-is-our-world IPCC severe pervasive irreversible ISIS
Iraq Nigerian schoolgirls o Operation Protective Edge! o peace
unobtainium! Crimea-Ukraine-Bangkok-Baghdad badness badness
badness to mourn the first of January & an attempt at joy for the
bits of good that got through a beatified Pope a few whales saved
a FIFA World Cup the Philae probe landing on Comet 67P is it
enough is it enough to love & be loved to have a life to be alive
will isotope 90 always persist will our hearts have the heft to resist
the new year is here MMXV 2015th of CE & AD 15th of the
3rd millennium the 21st century 5th of our time together today is
a normal Gregorian Thursday to my right is a rock what does it
look like to my left is the churning sea o 2015 what will you bring
even your name has that post-apocalyptic ring like a John Wyndham
tome or a stern Doomsday trope who are you & can you offer it
{hope}
Poem
strontium
Jordie Albiston