2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (serum): 1.304348 pg/g lipidYou are either for chlorineor for the plague.Right now is the cleanestwe have ever been, and for thisyou must love aerial defoliantsor you love communism.Under the bandage of this one-industrytown closing ranks around staplesof forestry and fish, the woundis wide-eyed and headstrong.Through the clearing, freshwater carpblink past the graves of missionarieswho introduced them to the New World.Northern rivers are warmedby the paper mill’s piss, which,like making the world safe for democracy,slowly leaked into my childhood, yellowingthe lipophilic paperbacks of myadipose fat. You are for pulpor for poverty. You respectthe Constitution or you stareat the ground lost in bankruptciesfor herring gull beaks or blurredembryos in cormorant colonies.Every erected media platform reducesthe problem of war to a problemof tint. During the Orange Revolution,Viktor Yushchenko was poisonedby government agents who haywiredhis food with dioxin. His face flaredinto pages of acne. You are eitherfor the red or the white blood cells,for the tops of trees, or the bottoms.