by Jack Rossi | Instead of putting a little gasoline on a rag then spot cleaning my hands, I would pour a couple tablespoons of the liquid into my palm and scrub my hands together to wash the paint off.
pesticide poisoning
Bene’s Battle Is Not Yet Over
Bene Barrymore, a senior who should be enjoying a comfortable retirement, is instead appealing to her community to help her repair her car so she can seek safe shelter before pesticide spraying season starts.
Pesticide kills humans but not bugs
Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Whitfield’s mobile home is still infested with insects after using a bug spray but her 10-month-old baby is dead and her 2-year-old son was critically injured.
Bene’s Battle
A senior with environmental illness hopes to avoid yearly homelessness during pesticide spraying season. Find out how you can help!
New Study: Autism Linked to Environment
Research links soaring incidence of the mysterious neurological disorder to fetal and infant exposure to pesticides, viruses, household chemicals.
Short List of Common Pesticides
1. Lindane | When someone found white dwarfs behind my ears | I was deloused with mustard gas | I had a daily headache that was like a single eye
Self: Ornithology: The Immune System
Everywhere I go now there are crows, following | me like innuendo, their feathers fanning out ominous | as police fingerprints. | With evolutionary anthropology, | they are condemning me.
canary blues
there’s a god point she said in the limbic brain | with the ability to soften perceived threats | white lawn care vans for example | into feet tingling joy pelvis goes with that | the bowl opening to receive
sabbath
you forgot that it was possible | too bogged down in the myth of industriousness | to value broken | how certain artists make ordinary beauty from their shame