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Chernobyl

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He hears an explosion;
He says nothing to his supervisor,
But goes to check:

Through three doors,
No shielding,
Feeling the strange tingle on his skin.
At first, the massive headache,
Then the joy of altered perception,
Better
And a thousand times more deadly
Than the purest drug:
A massive dose of radiation,
And he knows it.

Though he is a walking ghost,
In death still moving,
He only feels joy.

He stumbles back through the three doors
To his supervisor:
"It's gone!" he says, and collapses.
His supervisor doesn't believe him.
Thus, he must send two more men to die,
Simply because at his power plant
If something goes wrong
He'll lose his bonus
At the end of the month.
Grade 9 poetry, edited again.
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TwistyFox's avatar
i like it it's cool :)