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CalliopeVolume 42 Let Reality Worry, Here You Are Free Article 341-1-2012A Weirdness in the BackyardDana ShiromaUniversity of the PacificFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/calliopePart of the Art and Design Commons, and the Photography CommonsThis Photography is brought to you for free and open access by the College of the Pacific Journals at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Calliope by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact mgibney@pacific.edu.Recommended CitationShiroma, Dana (2012) "A Weirdness in the Backyard," Calliope: Vol. 42 , Article 34.Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/calliope/vol42/iss1/343130The Human Condition A Weirdness in the BackyardThe Colorful CorrosionJun Satowe carved highways into mountains like scarsconcrete cuts through green arteriesbleeding fumes and exhaustwe paved parking lots across fieldsasphalt dungeons outside big box retail prisonssites of fluorescent light torturewe erected skyscrapersglass phalluses into the cloudseach higher than the lastwe dumped heaps of plastic trash into the seaand cried out when it hit backwe split the atom and made our own sunsand cried out when they blew upit is no wonder, thenthat the shamans are all deadthat we lost touch with the spirit worldthat we regulate our dreams with drugsand live waking nightmareswe got the world we deservedhave you ever looked down on a city from an airplane?people and cars move like dots around a glorified anthillwell that’s just looking down from a mile in the skylook at the earth from a cosmic perspectiveand we are not even antswe are cancer cellsliving, loving, fighting, dying cancer cellsbreeding, choking, thriving cancer cellsravaging our mother and ourselvesand the only question iswhether or not we finish her offbefore we’re throughDana ShiromaDana Shiroma

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