Faster. Can we go faster? I
lie in the naked embrace of a
clock’s hand, it moves always, and
the moon beats mellow in the sky,
and it’s the way we stare directly
at the sun, and the sun
beats the other stars, and a
meteor cuts, and none of
it has cancer, up there. Our
cells though, they might, as
they spin their sweet tails
around the sun, as they hurtle
they divide and grow and divide and grow and forget
to die, and that’s cancer, and
that kills us. We just go
faster and faster, until we
need to half-die in irradiated
pain. It’s all so strange
if you stop to think about
it but why stop when
the whole world is a catapult
and the explosion feels
like home.
Read More:
California adds chemical used by Monsanto to list of cancer-causing chemicals [Huffington Post]
Glyphosate weedkiller, previously linked to cancer, judged safe by an EU watchdog [The Guardian]
Farmer’s weapons of mass destruction carry cancer fears [Irish Times]
Jenna Spagnolo is the co-director of Poets Reading the News.
Image by Howard Vindin, “Depth Coded Phalloidin Stained Actin Filaments Cancer Cell”.
