Believe Edward Teller
The German-trained scientist
who brought us the H-bomb
says we got nothing
to fear from nuclear power.
Meanwhile, yellow crust cakes
in pools in New Mexico
along the Rio Puerco.
Overnight, boomtowns
spring up in the desert
like radioactive yucca.
Gallup. Shiprock. Mexican Hat.
Twenty years later
Navajo miners cough up
red lungs of uranium.
Fifty years later
Denver's International
House of Pancakes
built on a radium processing
site, still hot, still
spewing radon gas
thick as maple syrup.
But don't believe
the bleeding hearts.
Believe Kerr-McGee.
Believe Edward Teller.
Believe me.
Just close your eyes
& it'll all be gone.
