012 Green

[brigid]

Mirrored from brigidkeely.com/wordpress.

Early non-Aboriginal settlers to the area described the river now known as the Chicago river as “little more than a sluggish, meandering, muddy ditch.” It has been widened, straightened, re-routed, and reversed. So much filth was emptied into it that portions of the river bubbled as methane gas from decomposing bodies, both human and non. Man has touched the river, and has corrupted and changed it.

Once a year, thick green dyes are dumped into the river. This hides the depths of the water, and the things that are born in it: things that man has created, that man does not want to see.

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