[Newspoetry] poem

[Anne Bargar]

Facts Doubt Misnomers 

(New York Times Headline 1/13)


If you happen to breathe

a mist of vaporized steel

and Uranium 238,

you could develop lung cancer

or lymphoma, but

scientist after

(American) scientist agrees

"Uranium 238 cannot cause cancer."


("Fray In Europe Over Uranium Draws Doubters")


Maybe those 

(Italian) deaths

from leukemia

are just

a physical manifestation

of doubt.


(Doubters In Europe Fray Over Uranium In Drawers)
 

Agreement between American scientists

does not constitute

a fray

in Europe.

A fray in Europe 

would feature both 

disagreement 

and 

Europeans.