Dulse Et Decorum Est
A Lobster's Lament. (with apologies to W.O)
Bent double, like old bait under totes
Knock-kneed, scuttling like crabs, we cursed through sludge,
Till beyond the dangling dredger's clutch, we turned our carapaces
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Lobsters crawled, asleep. Many had lost a claw, a stalked eye
But limped on, ichor-shod. All went lame; half blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the distant roaring sigh
Of dredged up sediments dropping from above.
SPOILS! Spoils! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of stumbling,
but there is no 'scape. No fitted human masks.
No just in time.
Someone, then two, then more were clattering loud and stumbling
And floundering like shrimp in evil steam.
Dim, through the muddy clouds and dimming thick gray light
As under a gray sea, we saw them: drowning!
In all my salted dreams, before my helpless sight,
They plunge at me, guttering, clawing. Drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
around the foul pile some evil skygod flung upon them,
And watch the antennae writhing in the mud above their heads
Their thrashing claws, like preachers peddling sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling at the muck-corrupted gills,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile mercury salting innocent claws and tails,
My friend,
you would not tell with such high zest
To larvae ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie:
Dulce et decorum est
Pro industria mori.
At their July 19, 2017 meeting the Rockland Harbor Mgmt Commission discussed plans to dredge the sides and end of the Rockland Fish Pier and dump the spoils either on Snow Marine Park or at the Rockland Disposal Site in mid Bay Background info.
3a.Rosenberg observes (excerpt of above) that this is a meeting for DEP 22sec
20 Chloe Chunn and QA 2min47sec
On April 8, 2014, Representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers and severa state agencies met with fishermen and others of the concerned public at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast,to discuss the state of Maines controversial plan to greatly expand the dredged area of the Searsport Harbor Here are photographs from the event, Media Coverage BDN ...Belfast Republican Journal.....WCSH-TV.. ...WLBZ
SPOILS! Spoils! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of stumbling,
Audio recordings from the February 24, 2014 public information meeting on the proposal to expansion-dredge Searsport Harbor, held at the Cross Center, in Bangor, Maine.
1. Intro and Ron Huber, Friends of Penobscot Bay 2min35sec
Please be advised that under Maine’s networked coastal program the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) will be the lead agency conducting the CZMA consistency review of this project in conjunction with its review of the ACOE’s application for water quality certification and that DEP’s findings and conclusions will provide the basis for the State’s response to the ACOE’s consistency determination. 
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