Depleted Uranium describes it incompletely leading you to believe its radioactivity has somehow been drained of its lethal divinity.
While D.U. will no longer sustain a fission reaction
s- s- s- s- s- s- s-
BOOM!!!
when fired as ammunition from aircraft Gatling guns, in anti-tank shells, cruise missiles and misnamed "smart" bombs, the heavy metal burns and burning through what it hits some of it va-a-a-aporizes-s-s-s-s releasing radioactive DU dust particles into the air where they penetrate articles like protective masks.
Breathe!
They lodge in your lungs.
Swallow.
Invite them into your blood, gonads, marrow and kidneys. In water, air and earth this radioactivity lies patiently waiting actively creating...
!!!CANCER!!!
Radioactive U-238 dust has a half life of 4 point 5 BILLION years, plus it appears to have caused Gulf War and Balkan Syndromes and in Iraq the unnatural deaths of 1 point 5 million.
International Law has banned these poisonous smoking guns, but one country uses and sells them defying all rational conventions.
In DU weapons the U.S.A. is Number One! !!!NUMBER ONE!!! !!!!!NUMBER ONE!!!!!
Duh?!
- Vi Ransel
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
