MARGE PIERCY READS ONE OF THE EXPENDABLES at PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT at a No Nukes Rally (May 19, 2013) Marge Piercy, a well known writer and poet from glorious Wellfleet, Cape Cod, reads her new poem One of the Expendables. The place? A rally to shut down the 2nd most dangerous nuclear plant in the country (The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant). This rally was held by Capedownwinders.org and The PilgrimCoaition.org. Video by Sue Doherty https://youtube/watch?v=CH14ZL_gBQ8 Cape Cod is wed to the mainland by two bridges, on mild week ends and all summer fed by miles of backed up cars. Right across Massachusetts Bay, one of the worst nuclear power plants, clone of Fukishima leaks into the bay. On its roof three thousand spent rods fester. Vulnerable to tsunami, flooding, attack from the air or land it squats menacing us, polluting. We who live here all year, our hundred thousands of summer visitors, we have been deemed expendable since we cannot by any means be evacuated. “Shelter in place” means breathe in, absorb through your skin, drink, swallow, eat radiation. Your home will be uninhabitable should you happen to survive at least a while before cancer dissolves your organs. The fragile land, the pure water we cherish will be tainted for decades. Fish, birds, your dog and cats, raccoons, squirrels, coywolves expendable too. We count for nothing compared to profits for a utility housed in New Orleans where you’d imagine they know floods. We’re the throwaway people, not as real as corporations. Chop off the crooked arm of Cape Cod and let us bleed. Copyright 2013 Marge Piercy Box 1473, Wellfleet MA 02667 [email protected] PIERCY READS ONE OF THE EXPENDABLES at PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT at a No Nukes Rally (May 19, 2013) Marge Piercy, a well known writer and poet from glorious Wellfleet, Cape Cod, reads her new poem One of the Expendables. The place? A rally to shut down the 2nd most dangerous nuclear plant in the country (The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant). This rally was held by Capedownwinders.org and The PilgrimCoaition.org. Video by Sue Doherty https://youtube/watch?v=CH14ZL_gBQ8 Cape Cod is wed to the mainland by two bridges, on mild week ends and all summer fed by miles of backed up cars. Right across Massachusetts Bay, one of the worst nuclear power plants, clone of Fukishima leaks into the bay. On its roof three thousand spent rods fester. Vulnerable to tsunami, flooding, attack from the air or land it squats menacing us, polluting. We who live here all year, our hundred thousands of summer visitors, we have been deemed expendable since we cannot by any means be evacuated. “Shelter in place” means breathe in, absorb through your skin, drink, swallow, eat radiation. Your home will be uninhabitable should you happen to survive at least a while before cancer dissolves your organs. The fragile land, the pure water we cherish will be tainted for decades. Fish, birds, your dog and cats, raccoons, squirrels, coywolves expendable too. We count for nothing compared to profits for a utility housed in New Orleans where you’d imagine they know floods. We’re the throwaway people, not as real as corporations. Chop off the crooked arm of Cape Cod and let us bleed. Copyright 2013 Marge Piercy Box 1473, Wellfleet MA 02667 [email protected] Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including The New York Times Bestseller Gone To Soldiers the National Bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women, and the classic Woman on the Edge of Time; eighteen volumes of poetry including The Hunger Moon and The Moon is Always Female, and a critically acclaimed memoir Sleeping with Cats.
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