they are roving / the wild boars

on the move across farmlands

and main streets / trampling gardens

rooting through rubble / snuffling trash

looting noodle stands / nuzzling

the rotten stores of grocery markets

 feral and mean and strong

left on their own to thrive

in the no go zone / plumped up

on radioactive plants and vermin

muscle and bone and fat / live

with the electric current of cesium 137

disco-glittering their veins

porkbelly shoulder chop and loin

still delicious but poisonous

to human predators who stay away

the way birds have learned to avoid

monarch caterpillars fattened

on noxious milkweed / all that

wasted radioactive flesh buried

in mass graves deep in the heart

of the no go zone until

there’s no more room to go

encroaching into the yards

of abandoned homes / the fallow

corners of wrecked farms

where they’re dug up and eaten

by packs of left-behind dogs

now radioactive dogs / a proper

cremation / at a safe burn facility

to keep radioactive particles

from leaking into the air only

possible at the rate of three

boars per day and there are

so many / thirteen thousand

running wild and unchecked / 200

pounds apiece of radioactive boars

bulldozing down the farmland

with glow-in-the-dark hooves

and contaminated snouts / mutant

super boars / new syndicate

of the no go zone / smarter  

than charlotte / demagogues

of their own brutal animal farm

batteries invincible and energized

on 130 years of radioactive half life

stamping it down / all of it / the boars

will inherit / to tear it all down

A FILM BY

Monty Marsh

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Todd Boss
Egg Creative
Claire McGirr

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Monty Marsh

PRODUCED BY

Guerilla Filmworx

EDITOR 

Vesela Stamenova   

VOICE OVER TALENT

Keely Beresford

SOUND DESIGN AND AUDIO FINISHING 

Egg Creative

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY

Dawn Richard

SECURITY

Our Pitbull Rocco Marsh

SPECIAL THANKS:

Faye and Bucky Marsh
Our Dawn Entertainment
Frank and Debbie Richard
Zeus Marsh

“song of the mutant super boars,” a poem by Lee Ann Roripaugh ©2016, Lee Ann Roripaugh. Used by permission. Collected in the forthcoming tsunami vs. the fukushima50 (Milkweed).