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three days of gamma rays, light shined into the brain
to fold away Alzheimer's, CRISPR-
modified mosquitoes
can/could/should, the 14-day ceiling
of lab embryos
ethics, ethicists, lawyers, and
experts of all ilk, McNutt,
project angelfire conceived
on backs of bar napkins, spy planes
with cameras over Dayton, Baltimore,
Juarez
and Fallujah.

Also, the curious
tale of Seneca, Nebraska, which voted itself
out of existence,
triage, 21 morphine-filled dead
inside a New Orleans hospital, 2005,
including the 380-lb. grandfather
on the 7th floor of a medical center
with no power or elevators.

Haiti, an entire country without oxygen...

and now
seven minutes into the case of the Buried Bodies
I return home from my hour-long trip (each way)
walk inside to the living room
and embrace anyone I can find
- Sarah - thinking -- this is the world
we live in (?!) and it should be taught
to every age at every school:
-resources will run out
-people always can and will
but rarely should
-no one has all the (any?) answers