Acid Rain

The water's been clear

As anything for two years now

And you can see straight

To the bottom and it's down

locked down

With the sand and rocks

And my boat slides

Smooth as the sunset

On the mirror and glass surface

But the fish don't jump

Anymore from the water

To the air their gleaming

Silver sides gone long ago

Ungodly creatures of

Fin and flesh below

Them Washington men

They came and spewed

their shotgun words

Around the lake

About low pH and

particle pollutants

And then ran belling

Into the next county

They told me what I already know

The lake is dead

and the fish are dead

and the plants are dead

and the tourists are all dead

And like them men from

The government

I been looking to the skies

for weeks now

But I don't believe in

no bullshit

acid

rain

I'm waitin'

for them

Spaceships

to come and land

on my

Hospital gown lake

and

make the world

right

again

Christopher J. Cramer

October 7, 1981