03 October 2011

Magpie Tales 85: Dream of the Disaster Relief Engineer

Image via Tess at Magpie Tales

Thirty five years in the business
Cleaning up diabolical messes
He lay abed in a mess of his own
Veins occluded by whispers of Morpheus

Harrisburg, Pripyat, Fukushima,
Ionization writ in the blood and bones
In fevered sleep he breathed, laughed:
Unlikely angel come to carry him home

16 comments:

  1. Hey...that would be a pretty cool mode of transportation...in the end.

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  2. That's a cool message and warning, IG. Thoughtful writing.

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  3. Wonderful contrasts here. I have witnessed morphine induced dreams at my mother's death bed. Elephant angels would be perfectly plausible. Your short poem spans a wide scene of horror, with perhaps a hint of relief in an afterlife.

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  4. This had a live by the sword, die by the sword feel for me ... great Magpie!

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  5. Wow. Excellent, my friend!

    That photo is really cool too. What great inspiration for the imagination.

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  6. ha. great closing line...what a fantastical angel that would be...and to die with a smile on ones face...

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  7. I'd worry that he might accidentally land on me. But 's as an angel, that one sure is pretty unexpected :)

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  8. You have come up with a truly thought-provoking take on the prompt...

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  9. well conceived response to the prompt

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  10. An unlikely angel, indeed. Well done. If you're curious. my Magpie 85 is Topsy.

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  11. I wonder if this could be nature getting revenge for all the crap we pull, imaging if one of those were overhead when it decided to go :)

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