Inna-Toxic-Garden-a-Eden
Depleted uranium children play games
across the way on radioactive topsoil
holding toxic oxides in their hands -
palm prints with a 4.5 billion year half-life
No longer needing night-vison goggles
to see villagers glowing in the dark
nose-bleed emetic daylight -
liberation grown cold
Eden sinking on the horizon
sons and daughters
husbands and wives -
the soldiers of misfortune
Leftover hellfire stains the mind
land full of error and disregard
convert reality's sand lot -
reminders of Homeland Insecurity
Stored in false-bottom containers
the static drain of toxic politics
leaching into the ground table -
the past awaits incineration
In double blind hypocrisy
caring is tossed to the wind
vision forgotten or left to waste -
permeating the oasis