Living in a city with fine dust problems, a few groups started working together to find solutions. In order to inform and bring all the people together, today a pick nick was organized on top of a tunnel among beautiful autumnal trees. 1487 people showed up for the event. There were speeches by the organizers but first a few poets opened the afternoon: the former city poet laureate, a Jazz singer poet, a poet sculptor who engaged the audience in a speaking choir and I. Knowing the audience would not just be for clean air and the appropriate solutions which would avoid the gasses from 300.000 cars impacting over 300.000 inhabitants. I was pretty sure they would also which to close our nearby nuclear plant since major flaws had been discovered in it. So one of the poems I read was: The long now:

the long now

10.000 years

who can then

read this

understand

the symbol

who knows then

looking

for the cause

of double timing halftime

short selling

of what how long

then still

has to come

now

10.000

years from now

the late burden

of moot mushrooms

and fantasies of fission

we all live

in the halftime

of the long

now -

Nuclear energy no thanks

Nuclear weapons no thanks