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Donald Askins I cast my lot in these mountains many lives ago: Esserville’s coke ovens greeted my coming, Their fiery mouths lighting the low rain clouds, Their reflected glow imbuing the scene with a hellish aspect— A neophyte’s ill-starred introduction to coal country. I cast my lot and bought the fight in 1968 : D-9 dozers and frontend loaders raping the earth And spoiling what’s left; draglines taking the mountaintops, Dumping them in valley fills that poison the water And kill the streams, rivers, lakes and ponds. I cast my lot and fought the fight: Our grassroots groups in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, And West Virginia marched on Washington r Th ough the years, until a strip-mining bill was won, we thought, With aoc , stream bue ff r zones, stricter permitting requirements. I cast my lot and lost the fight: The bureaucrats, the politicians, the moneyed interests They combined to undermine every provision in the bill: Enforcement was a farce, a shamed-face disgrace To the good people who fought to save our Appalachia intact.
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 24, 2009
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