Marylisa W. DeDomenicis


Chemical Threats Everywhere


We want to know what we think we don't

want to know but believe

we need to. Bio-terror

and chemical threats everywhere

outside our windows. Nuclear pow

er. Where our food supplies are. Where

our water comes from. Not far from here

bio-hazard suits gear up.

People stock up on thick plastic sheeting

and duct tape.

Camouflaged soldiers suit up. Outside

our windows they sit in restaurants –

remind us war is everywhere menacing

bridges, intimidating children. Everywhere

outside our windows war is

waiting to have the last word as the dead

will never know

how the war

worked out. Whose god was strongest?

Whose god most righteous? Dopamine,

epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin –

whose god won the war?


Marylisa W. DeDomenicis © 2004


© 2004

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