[Newspoetry] Quecreek Photo Op

[The Unknown]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/mine-a08.shtml

Quecreek Photo Op

"Symbolic of an
American spirit that
will defeat terrorism"?

The 9 miners
whose $1,500,000 stories
were bought by

Disney? Or those
who will someday
die mining coal?

Whose poverty ensures 
executives millions, whose 
children overfly coveted 

oilfields, whose coaldust 
explosions heat mansions, 
who drown in 

water irrigating rosegardens?
May you, Shrub,
contract black lung,

asphyxiate, drown, burn, 
break your back,
in the unregulated, 

uninspected, unclean, unsafe 
Pennsylvania coal mines
in which one 

day's work would 
exhaust your parasitic 
life's accumulated labor.