China Syndrome Poem by Keith Dovoric

China Syndrome



There goes the water where we find all the fish
There goes the earth where we grow all the food
There goes an ideological wish
Another tenet of Darwin, misconstrued

China Syndrome
Melting and melting into the ground
China Syndrome
Burning and burning all the way down

There goes a coal miner trying to help
Another sad soldier with soot on his face
There goes an agency that must mean well
They've sent back his remains in a six-foot case

There goes a forest gone belly-up
There goes a species without a bed
The sun won't shine, the winter won't let up
Fallout bakes the fields that once gave bread

China Syndrome…

There goes the water where we find all the fish
There goes the earth where we grow all the food
There goes an ideological wish
Another child of Darwin, torn from the brood

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I'd finished viewing, or come near to finishing, the miniseries 'Chernobyl.' It affected and disturbed me profoundly and I found myself replaying images and events from the film for weeks-on afterward.
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