headlines on the times are always suspect
but i found this one helpful to me
personalizing the nuclear catastrophe that is
altering the world daily and too big to grasp
giving me permission to cry in this cafe
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it is reported there are 50 workers left onsite at the fukishima plant
crawling through dark shafts with oxygen tanks on their backs
trying desperately to rig malfunctioning water pumps
and prevent the environmental disaster of meltdown
this is what all the supposedly high tech precautions
vaunted gizmos and redundant safety measures
of the self-assured scientists of the nuclear industry
come down to
50 heroes trying to save their country
knowing full well
they are dead
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it is no coincidence there are exactly 50 workers
who have been sent into mission impossible
it is the kototama principle again
although only a few know it
50 is a magic number in Japanese mythology
it is the number of sounds i chant in the morning
it represents the full flowering of human capacity
and someone in Japan apparently
still knows this
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perhaps magic will find its way
in the fifty's frantic efforts
yet even if entirely futile
today
very soon
one way or another
this ticking half-life we are living
in the shadowy satanic arrangement of the world
will turn over
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