1/16 Reportback from Town Hall: NO! to UNC’s proposed PFAS pellets
by dagwood, bridge rider, and community members
on january 16th, 2025, community members spoke in staunch opposition to unc’s request to burn plastic filled pellets as a new energy source. below is a collection of haikus passed between two chapel hill residents during the meeting. visit triangle blog blog for a live-blog of the event & more broad reporting on unc’s request.
i.
abound, abounding
community expertise
I love my neighbors
ii.
cogeneration,
admin wants you to forget,
is already bad
iii.
we are the speakers,
current and future victims —
ppast under coal ash
iv.
overflow is flowed!!
o.g. space in hillsborough
because oh so scared
v.
be afraid of us
we are more powerful than
they can imagine
vi.
PFASs in the blood,
a public experiment.
Whose hypothesis?
vii.
can you hear it? now?
neighbors galore, wanting more.
I’m optimistic.
viii.
one part per trillion
bioaccumulate in
the future’s bloodstream.
i must implore you —
use whatever power you
have. it is that dire.
i live and breathe in
chapel hill, another thing
to burn i am not.
ix.
enduring question:
how to check unchecked power?
this will be our door.
ix.
“only a little
shit to make a shit sandwich,”
“paper class/pellets”
scientists, also
researchers, also poets.
chapel hill has all.
xi.
I DO NOT CONSENT
TO BEING POISONED BY THIS
UNIVERSITY
xii.
Don’t you see they hate
you — not asleep at the wheel.
They hate you. They hate —-
xiii.
Being transported
into the bleak future of
polluted nightmares.
xix.
your decisions will
live in our lungs tomorrow.
Do you understand?
