surviving the melt down

she says to me
over the phone, boy,
I've been reading your stuff
lately.
holy moly.
it's like a Shakespearean
tragedy.
what the hell
happened.
it's all there, I tell
her in black and white.
think of Hiroshima,
or Nagasaki
or three mile island.
think Chernobyl
times ten.
it was pretty much an
ugly sixteen months melt
down
with the core
gone bad,
but the problem is gone.
the reactor is back
online.
up and running.
all is well now.
no use lingering
in the past. we won't
make that mistake again.