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Late Night Ocean Dumping

from Digital Portfolio by Lee Todd Lacks

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This piece began as a poem that I wrote in August of 1991, after reading an article that appeared in the Boston Globe earlier that week. This article reported on a rather disturbing waste-disposal practice that was authorized by the state of Massachusetts between the 1940’s and the 1970’s. This practice utilized WWII-era military ships that had been refitted to function as “garbage barges.” Under cover of darkness, these ships routinely transported all manner of rubbish to an area near Stellwagen Bank in Massachusetts Bay, where it was indiscriminately dumped.

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Coursing through the North Atlantic,
the fish are dispersed by
the subsonic tremor of
the garbage barge as it
enervates their spawn
with phosphorescent waste.

Myriad microcosms lost in an instant.
The echoes of death
reach all of their brethren.
When nets are full of chunky poison,
we shall soon taste it.

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from Digital Portfolio, released October 23, 2018

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