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The Spill
Dangerous People
Robert McGee
For the past 28 years Robert McGee, a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, has lived in Mobile, Alabama, where he works in a factory. He is married with two grown children. Collecting old books and writing poems are his favorite hobbies. He has a burgeoning appetite for history and art.
Like wolves* lurking
Below the surface,
Stealthily closing in:
Periscope hums --
Tubes ready --
Bearings adjusted --
Course steady --
Broadside exposed
Where crosshairs intersect . . .
Bomb ticking
In the Gulf:
Extreme pressures
In the earth,
Flammable gas --
A geologic force;
Defective well,
Dangerous people –
Ignition source.
*reference to the Grey Wolves, U-Boats that Hitler deployed in the North Atlantic
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