[Crowbob]

So here we are again, fint; pumping arsenic, lead and sulfuric acid into the rivers and streams. Lots of progress over the decades, right? This wasn't just an accident like bumping into a kid with a grocery cart in isle 7. This is an environmental disaster, the severity of which has not yet been determined. One thing is for sure; the EPA is not telling us how bad it is and definitely not how bad it can be. Arsenic and lead? The damn river is orange!

It is beautiful, though. Much like Gauguin's 1897 masterpiece* in the synthetist style just prior to his suicide attempt. Blue sky, green trees and an orange river where neither form nor color dominate the other: a precursor to abstraction with a muted application of the theory of complimentary colors. What beautiful effects arsenic has just as the syphilitic Gauguin's open sores were treated with arsenic.

*"Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"-Boston Museum of Fine Arts.