The sky once so blue
      Reflects back the orange of burning refinery
Cheery blossoms blown to ash
      Like fallout from some horrible war
Destruction caused by unthinking humankind
      Beyond all expectation
I get up and change the channel
      No more rubber monsters

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A View of Mt. Fuji, Looking Up by Michael D. Turner
originally published July 24, 2009

 

 


Michael D. Turner is a writer from Colorado Springs, Colorado. His writing has appeared multiple times in Big Pulp, and in Aberrant Dreams, AlienSkin, Between Kisses, Flashing Swords, Every Day Fiction, and Tales of the Talisman.

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