Recreational Radiation

by Steel Warren

which creates and contrives in large and small tribes 
a conflagration of hestitational sublime supplications 
to energy czars in long limo cars, telling and belling 
please save, please save, 
as they dig us a grave of nuclear waste
in oh so bad taste

should this message err
as it reaches your peaches of ears
or the price be too dear

so as to exclude solar power
in this our thinnest of hours 
caught between flexing towers of ivory
and green - feeds the warring machine

hush hush!
here come the ticker tape horde 
you say it sounds just absurd,
well then, in a nuclear word

LETS ATOM!

three mile whyland that spook nuclear  toyland
where penns woodsmen had their doubts
in large and awkward amounts!

even the gov was not above the loveless shove
greedy beady eyes! he cried to his spies,
"they're still in disguise, the NRC lies, to you and me"
to the man in his head, wishing them dead, or at least better led!

nobody knows!
and oh boy how it shows!

all their holes an their leaks,
and that double-bubble trouble
protons a-rumble
greeting heat with their feeding feet

pressure speaks, water breaks 
raining hydrogen now and then

Harold Denton* maybe the friend of atom jockeys, 
but don't play ice hockey with your genes
you know what I mean?

so it seems that they don't wanna talk
and you mustn't squawk 
like that hawk Silkwood,
who, to do what she could
peppered her food, with something not good 
for a hundred thousand  years

but they've tallied all the tears
and the state board cleared Kerr McGreed
weird just as she feared Kerr was cleared,
 
but they'll maybe say, after a year and a day
that her civil rights were denied, 
and they'll say, they tried 
to help the poor kid, 
when she did what she did

just one more small fib
nestled in the federal crib,
they build our bombs delight, in the light of night?

OUTASIGHT!

but turkey point*, to resume our debate
may change our fate,
We know its not too late,
we know its safe, 
by the crape that they drape, on all who might doubt, 
so lets help them out! Evolutions too slow
they just want us to grow

as diffident dissidents allow
but don't milk your cow till the lead shields arrive
at your tribe
lest some milkmaid decides to birth young
worst song sung!

DNA spiral sprang clang! bang!

chemical piles grow deep 
the water descends soils creep
south carolina sheep hold folds for your dna spiral 
but after a while
you won't care, cause they'll be none to compare 
with the unchanged state

Isn't that great?

turkey point*       nuclear plant in south florida
harold denton*   head of NRC during TMI incident
karen silkwood*  whistle blower at Kerr McGee