years since the gap first appeared between the teeth of a little girl picking raspberries from her mother's hand by the poisoned stream a toxic tale of porcelain has traced its tiny fingers round the lines on contour maps (& their bedroom walls they stick our portraits & sit up for haircuts while you look for lice (quivering blue & the stream's ghastly handwriting etching metallic notes each time it rains the flow oh-so milky-white like a daughter's teeth it's nothing or a politician's grin there's nothing to be done we can't vote (can't even see the lead lies prone at the bottom of the gulf between where we end & everybody else's first-world problems begin
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Despite the tranquil setting, Farstaviken is one of the most polluted bays in Sweden, thanks to the pollution caused by runoff from the (now closed) porcelain factory.
Residents of the area have been engaging in some community activism to halt the runoff but, so far, to no avail.
It’s all very depressing.