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Nukeletter 16

GOD BLESS LGBT

yes. wonderful. great. congratulations. members at last.

universal human rights. i did not know, but I was already

awarded UN UHR before i was born (in 1954, zodiac year of

the Godzilla). now that i know, how do I feel?

while it might have been, for some of my countrymen or

women, good clean fun — or civic duty — to beat a queer

to death, or for certain governments to sentence them to death,

there is no real money in it. that is why it is understandable

that any true capitalist might want to give it up. bad for biz.

which is why certain politicians try to distance our society from

human sacrifice by including LGBT in club UHR. just to show how

good we really are. how morally upstanding. how civilized.

how righteous. we’ve come a long way. we are better than Uganda.

because there is no big money in persecuting LGBT, but, because

there is still heap big money in nuclear power, there are no rights

protecting us from radioactive fallout, from contaminated food,

from contaminated everything. it is okay for radiation from nukes

to give us thyroid cancer, leukemia, breast cancer, liver cancer,

universal human cancer. no universal rights protect us from

morons with money.

[This scroll-like series of Scott Watson’s Nukeletters, written by the poet, writer, editor and publisher, is presented unedited and in its ongoing entirety here at Word Pond. One Nukeletter will be posted each successive day through the completed set of 14 to date. Beyond that, a Nukeletter will be posted as soon as it becomes available. Scott Watson lives in Sendai, Japan. All rights are  © Scott Watson. Word Pond  is deeply grateful for the author’s permission to share this remarkable series.]