I have
always loved mushrooms especially in olive oil and garlic sauteed
So tasty yet
so little calories for the weight gain to delay
How could 8
ounces of fungi from the stores taste so good?
My mother
was more adventurist and shopped for them in the fields and woods
Shaggy Morels
were to her mycology friends the crown jewels
But too many
other mushrooms poisonous landmines to be eaten only by fools
On this
August 6th day the anniversary of the second mushroom in the sky
The one
marking the fact that over 90,000 men, women, and children would die
I can still
see my mycologist mother with a basket of picked mushrooms
Carefully
pointing out what was safe to eat and what would bring you doom
To this far
sighted kid peering through his glasses other than toadstools they all looked the same
Far better
to head for Safeway where picking the right mushroom was not a deadly game
Today the
Safeway mushrooms are U.S., Britain, China, Putin, notwithstanding, Russia and
France
No leader in
that country would ever want to go to the Mutually Assured Destruction Dance
India but
for Pakistan would like to join that club; but jihad in Pakistan may be alive
and well
For a
jihadist there is only Paradise and virgins and never the MAD hell
North Korea
and Iran in the nuclear mycology world are toadstools-- there can be no debate
We cannot
allow them to nuclear weapons create
In that
regard without a military option, we are not doing very well
When does
the day come when another city by these rogues is sent to a nuclear hell?
We still
have the issue of accident, theft and human or computer error
That will
always be with us if we are armed with nuclear terror
One might propose
discussion on whether if we can’t put the genie back in the bottle
We put her
on a massive diet and Patriots and SDIs for all and her urge to come out so
throttle
Like my
mother who to avoid anyone in the family going to the deadly mushroom brink
After
washing off the Shaggies would throw the deadly others down the sink.
© August 6,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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