Dream No. 22: Radiated Rain in Maebashi

Lucid adventure poetry:
17:45,
Refuge at the Fressay Supermarket
In post-radiated Maebashi City.

Grey clouds,
Overcast gray streets,
Grey characterless structures;
No contrast today in Zozo Town.

Japanese faces
On the street
Look like they are
About to explode
From hidden worries.

Meeting my friend,
Drinking Hojicha,
We step into a toy store
Out of toxic precipitation.

Mio says “kono ame wa chotto abunai desu ne.”
Less than 200 miles away, pure Plutonium exposed;
Iodine, Cesium, radiating steam lifts up into the air
and down on me, an idiot in the rain.

Those 3 nuclear meltdowns,
Into the land and water cycle;
A permanent poisoning of
The Earth around me.

Me, with no umbrella, 
Just a red sweatshirt, a train ticket,
And a dangerous curiosity
To continue life, as is.

The spirit of Japan is secretly crushed:

I can read between the lines…
Of the mangled structural frames of Fukushima Daiichi,
Of water-soaked trash lining the streets of Sendai,
Of the deep red and black newspaper kanji scripts,
Of hand-holding train patrons, waiting to go home; forced to walk in the darkness
Of Tokyo subway tunnels.
Of long queues to get gas and food,
Of somatic nomads welding exposed amino acid strands,
Of heavy petting in the Garden of Earthly Delights,
Of a toxic world (that we made that way),
Of the souls of the dead living in the spectrum of light and sounds,
Of concern on the faces of Shinya and Makiko,
Friends who invited me to their Japanese ryokan inn
To voice their recommendation that I go home,
Because the government was lying and I am still youthful.

Of all the poems I didn’t write,
When circumstances occurred,
To achieve some semblance of emotional catharsis,
Yet in failed efforts to find a pen or
Clairvoyantly rearrange letters and sounds to
Try to mimic and transfer the same series of
Brain patterns and chemical neurological responses,
I let go.

When the last human takes
The last breath,
The Earth will not
Blink its eyes
And for now,
I will continue to exist while I can,
To see the fate of us humanoids:

Are we all already radiated?

-Chuck Clenney

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